Corporate control

Meat Plant Closings Show Fragility of “Get Big” System, Say Midwest Family Farm Groups

Global players forced small meatpacking plants out, farmers and workers pay the price

Midwest Family Farm Groups Want Aid to Get to People, Not Global Agribusiness

Family farm based organizations in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and South Dakota sent a letter to Congress today calling for strong oversight of the recently passed COVID-19 aid package to ensure the U.S.

CFFE Letter to Congress on COVID-19 Response

Download the full letter here.    April 7, 2020 Dear Member of Congress,

World Economic Forum and the corporate takeover of the global governance of our food systems

IATP joins hundreds of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from around the world to condemn the rumors about a World Econom

The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa

Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers. Originally Published on Common Dreams, November 1, 2019

Big Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change

CLIMATE EXPERTS HAVE sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems.

Monocultures of the Genetically Modified Mind: My Surreal Encounter with Monsanto in Mexico

I was surprised to find seed giant Monsanto almost everywhere I went to research my book, Eating Tomorrow. But my closest encounter came early, during a five-hour meeting in 2014 with six Monsanto executives in the company’s high-rise office in Mexico. Monsanto and other seed companies were trying to open Mexico to genetically modified corn.

Letter to Attorney General Sessions on the Proposed Dow-DuPont, Monsanto-Bayer and Syngenta-ChemChina Mergers

New research shows the industrial livestock industry is creating a climate crisis

The top five mega-corporations responsible for factory-farmed meat and dairy are responsible for emitting more combined greenhouse gases (GHGs) than Exxon, or Shell, or BP. That is according to findings just released in a joint study undertaken by IATP and GRAIN.