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Environment Panel | Sierra Club Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium

Environment Panel Carroll Muffett, Center for International Law (moderator) Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club (investor-state, energy & climate) William Waren, Friends of the Earth U.S. (downward harmonization)

Food Panel | Sierra Club Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium

Food Panel Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition (moderator) Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumer Association (GMOs) Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Institute for Trade & Agriculture Policy (emerging technologies)

Experts Discuss Implications on Environment, Labor, Consumer Rights, and Food Policy

July 8, 2013: Experts Discuss Implications on Environment, Labor, Consumer Rights, and Food Policy. Sierra Club telepresser on launch of U.S.-EU trade negotiations (TTIP). Speakers: Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club Lori Wallach, Public Citizen Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO Karen Hansen-Kuhn, IATP

Trade Secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with U.S.

Transparency and trade negotiations don’t seem to go together these days. Recent revelations in Spiegel disclosed that the U.S.

Trade deal to undermine health, environmental standards

Closed-door trade negotiations on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), set to begin July 8, could significantly lower health and environmental protections as EU and U.S. negotiators work to “harmonize” standards as part of the agreement. A group of 34 family farm, consumer, faith, public health, development and environment organizations from the U.S.

Free trade versus food democracy

April 17, 2013 – There has been a quiet revolution going around the world, as communities and nations retake control of their food systems. In the U.S., more people are taking a look at processed foods at the supermarket and opting instead for healthier choices, grown locally with fewer pesticides.

TPP: Doubling down on failed trade policy

The 16th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) began this week in Singapore.

Who’s at the Table? Demanding Answers on Agriculture in the Trans-Pacific Partnership

New report: Governments must protect land, food systems as trade liberalization accelerates land grabbing

IATP has always argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalization that privileges commercial interests and tramples on public interests. In a new paper on land grabs, we reaffirm that position.

The Common Denominator

IATP President Jim Harkness presented the following address to the attendees of the 11th Hour Project's grantee gathering on October 11, 2012. See a video of his remarks below. Good morning.

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