Global governance

Food Sovereignty Series: Nora McKeon, author of Food Security Governance

Nora McKeon is the author of "Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations." Nora formerly worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and continues to be very active around food systems, food governance, small-scale farmer movements, and UN-civil society relations.

Reports of the global land rush come to Washington

“You can have food in the stores, but will people in the community be able to buy it?” This was the question posed by Buba Khan, of ActionAid in Africa, to attendees at a Congressional briefing IATP co-hosted last week with ActionAid, Oxfam America and the Heinrich Boll Foundation.

Water Governance in the 21st Century

As water insecurities increase globally, there is an increasing emphasis on demand management approaches, which for the most part emphasize market mechanisms as a means to ensure water security for all. Water trading is one of the market-based mechanisms that helps transfer water from one user to another.

Poetry, science and democracy at the World Social Forum

IATP's Dr. Steve Suppan is blogging from Tunis, Tunisia, the site of the World Social Forum.

Groups welcome the release of administration proposal for international food aid reform

Washington, D.C., February 26, 2013 – The below groups welcome reports that the Administration may propose helpful reforms to the U.S. food assistance program in its FY2014 budget submission to Congress. We urge the Obama Administration to include a bold reform proposal that builds upon the United States’ historic leadership as the world’s most generous donor of food aid.

EU takes a crucial step toward market regulation

After the disastrous financial collapse in 2008, the commodity and financial market regulatory reform process on both sides of the Atlantic has been a series of promising but halting steps, all too often two steps forward and one step back.

An open letter to G-20 finance ministers: The world needs leadership on finance reform

George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Government of the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, European Commission Ikko Nataksuka, Minister of State for Financial Services, Government of Japan

The G-20 agricultural agenda: Agricultural productivity growth in a vacuum

When the Heads of State of the G-20 countries meet in Los Cabos, Mexico on June 18–19, they will have plenty to discuss—not least, the fragile global economy and the instability of international finance. Food security is on their agenda as well.

Climate change, food security and the G-20

From north to south, Mexican farmers are facing some of the most severe climate instability they’ve ever confronted. The northern states are suffering from what the Mexican government has called the worst drought the country has ever experienced; rain just won’t fall, and the crops that have been planted have dried up.

Bracketing away our future in Rio?

IATP’s Shiney Varghese is in Rio participating in the Rio+20 Earth Summit.