Publication archives

Oct 2, 2024

How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode One: Raising a Stink

by
Lilly Richard
Anna Karns
What is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), and what does it mean that nearly all farm animals in the U.S. are now raised in them? Independent family farmers and rural communities are facing the brunt of these consequences, but they're not going to take it lying down.
How to Fight a Factory Farm
Oct 1, 2024

October is Farm to School and Early Care Month!

by
Nora Shields-Cutler
Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and agriculture education.  
kids and corn
Sep 26, 2024

Comments to the USDA on the implementation of the SUSTAINS Act

by
Michael Happ
Ben Lilliston
The following comments were submitted to the U.S.
Sep 24, 2024

IATP statement on the CFTC approval of guidance to industry on voluntary carbon market credits

MINNEAPOLIS— On Sept. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to approve final guidance to commodity exchanges planning to offer new derivatives contracts whose underlying assets are credits based on projects intended to reduce or remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Sep 23, 2024

Hay’s in the field and a storm is brewing: Another year without a new Farm Bill?

by
Michael Happ
You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, then the sunshine is waning for a new Farm Bill to be passed before the current bill’s Sept. 30 expiration date.
Gathering storm over field
Sep 20, 2024

Balancing Power in the Summit of the Future

by
Shiney Varghese
The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the Future at the Summit of the Future, Sept. 22-23, 2024.
U.N. headquarters NYC with image of globe and scales
Sep 16, 2024

Introducing: How to Fight a Factory Farm

by
Lilly Richard
Anna Karns
Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organ
How to Fight a Factory Farm
Aug 30, 2024

IATP Comment on the Article 6.4 Sustainable Development Tool

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
IATP submitted the following comment to Ms. Maria Al Jishi, International Policy Advisor, Ministry of Energy, Saudi Arabia and Mr. Martin Hession Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change, International Carbon Markets Policy and Negotiations, European Commission, Ireland on August 30, 2024.  Dear Chair Al Jishi,  Dear Vice Chair Hession,