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May 27, 2025

Minnesota Department of Agriculture Farm to School Grant Evaluation: 2023 Local Food for Schools

Nora Shields-Cutler

Ryan Pesch

Brigid Tuck

This report evaluates the FY2023 MDA Farm to School grants, which were unique due their support from federal funding received by MDA from the USDA’s Local Food for Schools (LFS) Cooperative Agreement Program. This report includes the purchasing patterns of grantees, including methods, products, successes, and challenges. It also documents the overall economic impact of this infusion of funds on the local economy.

May 20, 2025

USDA Farm Conservation Program Q&A

Michael Happ

On May 13, IATP hosted a new installment of our “Shaping the Future of Food” webinar series with Michael Happ, IATP program associate for climate and rural communities. In the webinar, Michael discussed the unmet demand among U.S. farmers for the popular USDA conservation programs EQIP (Environment Quality Incentives Program) and CSP (Conservation Stewardship Program). 

May 19, 2025

Brazilian perspectives on the EUDR, the Cerrado, and respect for family farmers, Indigenous people, and community rights

Maureen Santos

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples and local communities living in and adjacent to forests and the importance of including the Cerrado biome in the regulation, in accordance with demands from Brazilian civil society organizations.

May 12, 2025

IATP Europe comments on the EU’s next long-term budget

Claire Stockwell

Society needs to transition to more sustainable, resilient and agroecological food systems in the coming decades, so that we grow healthy and nutritious food in a way that respects animals and nature, and fairly reward those who produce it.  

Apr 24, 2025

Aligning deforestation-free supply chain initiatives

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

This article outlines some key elements of the EUDR and compares it with deforestation prevention proposals emerging in other importing countries.

Apr 15, 2025

Financing Food Security and Nutrition: Defunding industrial agriculture and re-purposing support for agroecology in Africa

Calvin Manduna

Last month, IATP had the privilege of attending two important and interrelated events in Nairobi on defunding industrial agriculture and promoting agroecology.

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