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Apr 29, 2021

USDA Comment on the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home

To read IATP's full comment to the USDA, please download a PDF of the comment. 

Apr 26, 2021

Reshaping supply management in the US: Looking North and South for inspiration

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

This article was originally published as part of the Disparity to Parity project, created by a group of farmers, activists, scholars, organizers, movement leaders and policy analysts united by a commitment to food, farm and land justice, resilience and wellbei

Apr 20, 2021

Agriculture’s role in President Biden’s climate pledge to the UN

Ben Lilliston

On Earth Day, April 22, President Biden will update the United States’ climate pledge to the United Nations at the Leaders Summit on the Climate with some of the world’s largest polluting countries in virtual at

Apr 14, 2021

IATP statement on the death of Daunte Wright

IATP

On Sunday, Daunte Wright, a young Black father and member of our Minnesota community, was tragically and fatally shot by a policer officer in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. Our thoughts are with the grieving loved ones and community of Daunte, whose life was taken senselessly and too soon.

Apr 8, 2021

WEBINAR: A Call to Address Climate Change: Food Producer Perspectives on the Path Forward

IATP

This webinar focused on grassroot concerns about carbon markets in agriculture. As the climate crisis increasingly impacts rural communities in the U.S., corporate capture of the climate agenda threatens to undermine efforts to hold polluters accountable and bolster resilience in rural communities.

Apr 7, 2021

Time for US and EU to regulate factory farms’ greenhouse gas emissions

Ben Lilliston

Shefali Sharma

The largest hog and dairy operations in the U.S. are run more like factories than farms. They concentrate thousands of animals indoors and produce massive amounts of manure, which is often turned into liquid and sprayed on farm fields. This factory farm system is a major source of the potent greenhouse gas (GHG) methane. Yesterday, U.S.

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