Publication archives

Nov 10, 2025

Emissions targets, carbon markets, and space for new leadership: What will come of COP30?

Ben Lilliston

In 2015, at the 21st U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21), 195 countries around the world launched the Paris Agreement, an historic effort to save the planet, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and respond to the climate crisis.

Nov 6, 2025

IATP Travel Log: Harvesting hope and community from Minneapolis to Malmö

Sophie Scherger

This year’s harvest time brought me to three different places — from Minneapolis over to Copenhagen, Denmark then to Malmö, Sweden — to learn and discuss what we can do to make our food systems work for the people.

Nov 6, 2025

Introducing: New MN Ag Policy 101 Resources

Erin McKee VanSlooten

Nora Shields-Cutler

The MinneAg Network is on a mission to lift up community members and highlight their solutions to nurture vibrant food systems that provide access to sufficient, safe, culturally appropriate, and nutritious food while developing local supply chains that allow small to mid-scale farmers access to markets.  As part of this vision, we aim to demys

Nov 5, 2025

Beyond soybeans and China, the U.S. farm economy is broken

Ben Lilliston

The plight of U.S. soybean farmers and lost exports to China has splashed across headlines this fall. Trump administration trade chaos has exposed deeper problems with an export-focused agriculture economy.

Oct 31, 2025

UN committee creates space for collaborative responses in support of just food system transitions

Shiney Varghese

Against the backdrop of multilateralism facing multiple challenges, and the UN remaining a spectator to unprecedented levels of unilateral coercive measures that are suffocating economies, obliterating communities, and impacting millions of lives in the Global South, Ukraine, and the Middle East, it was a relief to see governments coming together last week to adopt 

Oct 30, 2025

Calling for changes in USMCA to build fair and resilient rural economies

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

In the midst of a lot of chaotic pronouncements about trade and tariffs, it has been hard to know how to weigh in on the trade policies we need. The current review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provides an opportunity to address changes since that agreement was enacted in 2020 and to fix problems that have become apparent during its implementation.

Canada, U.S. and Mexico flags over countryside landscape

Oct 30, 2025

Q&A: What's next for the Farm Bill?

Michael Happ

On top of trade turmoil and a U.S. government shutdown, Congress has still not passed a new Farm Bill, the primary legislation that sets a majority of U.S. food and farm policy and funding. The future of the Farm Bill is still unclear.