Reports

CAFTA's Impact on U.S. Ethanol Market

The U.S. ethanol industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Much of this growth in the Midwest has been financed and fueled by local investments, primarily from family farmers, who own collectively over half of the 84 ethanol plants. These plants provide risk mitigation and a preferred market for corn farmers, new jobs and income streams for rural communities.

Eye on America: Social Watch 1997-2004

IATP has compiled our contributions to SocialWatch between the years 1997-2004.

The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

Prepared for the Decision Making in the Global Market program at Consumers International.

Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities

Hospitals around the country are starting to follow their own advice to patients about the importance of a beneficial diet by offering fresh, healthy food at their facilities.

Sweet or Sour? The U.S. Sugar Program and the Threats Posed by the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Program

The U.S. sugar program is the only major U.S.commodity program that guarantees fair prices to farmers, operates at no cost to tax payers and prevents export dumping at below the cost of production. In other words, it balances supply and demand.

Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad

Traces the battle over the approval of genetically engineered wheat in the United States.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO - Hindi Version

Translated into Hindi by the Indian Social Action Forum, this report discusses how international human rights law is impacted by the World Trade Organization's agriculture agreement.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO translated into Nepali

This has been translated into Nepali from the original English.

The Treaty Database

The Treaty Database is comprehensive overview of the U.S. history of joining or ignoring multilateral treaties. It also contains a summary of US government treaty actions broken down by presidential administration dating back to 1893. Besides the Treaty Database there are additional links to the Treaty Database Factsheet, press release and research data for the report.