United Nations

Agroecology, food sovereignty and the 5th U.N. Conference for Least Developed Countries

On March 5, the United Nation’s 5th Least Developed Countries (LDC) Decade of Action Conference will formally open in Doha, Qatar. IATP will be there, together with an anticipated 600 or so others from civil society, mingling with Heads of LDC states and their staff, a variety of U.N.

‘Cooperate or Perish’ and the Race to Zero campaign

As delegates to the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) debated how to implement decisions taken at the COP26, U.N.

Food security of world's hungry at stake: When geopolitics trump multilateralism

On Monday, October 10, United Nations Members States, representatives of civil society, the private sector, researchers and governments gathered in Rome for the 50th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).

IATP responses to UNSG High Level Expert Group on net-zero emissions for non-state entities

The following document was submitted on August 31 in response to a consultation survey advising the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) of the United Nations Race to Zero greenhouse gas emissions campaign. The subtitles correspond to the survey topics.

Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises

The governing body of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) met in Rome on April 8, 2022 in an Extraordinary Session

United States farmers, food and trade justice advocates call on Biden administration to reorient approach to global food and agriculture issues

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, in advance of World Food Day, more than 65 United States-based farmers, food and trade justice advocates delivered a letter to the Biden administration urging the U.S.

United Nations squanders opportunity for binding commitments to end hunger sustainably

On Thursday, September 23, the United Nations will host a one-day summit meeting in New York on food systems. You would think they had it all — a great topic (who does not eat?) and great timing, too, as the collective failure to halt the pandemic continues to push the number of people living with food insecurity higher, while unprecedented experiments with social protection programs and universal income point to the potential for transformative change and a redefinition of the social contract that binds citizens and their governments.