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Last week, IATP launched the report, From the Ground Up: The State of the States on Climate Adaptation for Agriculture. Josh talks with Lachlan Anathasiou, who interned at IATP in summer 2017 about the research he did on the report and the report's findings.
Since 2013, IATP has worked with Head Start programs across the state of Minnesota to implement Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) initiatives. These initiatives are based on three core components: local foods in meals and snacks, food- and farming-themed classroom activities, and family engagement and outreach.
IATP often works internationally, but our headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this episode, Josh is joined by Filiberto Nolasco, Editor of the online news site, Workday Minnesota, to talk about what the broader issues of labor, immigrants rights, and social justice are happening in our community.
As the world's nations consider strategies to tackle climate change, little attention has been given to the intersection of energy intensive industrial agriculture and global distribution systems combined with trade agreements.
Bristol Herald Courier, Kingsport Times News, Washington County News, January 15, 2007
The following first appeared in The Hill on March 21, 2018, under the title: How Congress Can Shut Down Trump's Latest Power Grab
MINNEAPOLIS State-level climate adaption strategies frequently do not include agriculture, and an alarming number of states dont have plans at all, a blind spot in preparing for climate change that will be costly to farmers and state governments, finds a new report by the Institute
The Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum have caused a lot of chatter and speculation. But they exist in a very complicated and interconnected system. Today, Josh talks about the tariffs, the WTO, and the rules based multilateral trading system with IATP Adviser, Sophia Murphy, Director of Trade and Global Governance, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, and IATP Executive Director, Juliette Majot.
This blog overviews our February 2018 "Our Energy Future: Ideas to Action" event in Morris, MN.
Prepared for the meeting of the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) at Yale University and the Tokyo-based Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI), June 26-27, 1997 in New York City.
Josh talks with Cristina Garcia, Member Mobilization Manager at Alianza Americas about the links between trade and migration. They are talking about how NAFTA and other trade policies have forced people to become economic migrants, why they choose to cross borders what trade policy would look like that respected the mobility of labor.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a member of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) since 2011, strongly supports AFRs March 5 letter in opposition to S.
Summary from the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) Briefing, December 1987:
Stevens County residents met to discuss the future of their energy system.
Free trade deals, and in particular the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), have taken a beating this election season. Most of the noise on trade from Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has focused on the loss of jobs linked to the offshoring.