IATP’s new report highlights the risks of climate change for import dependent and major food producing countries, with a special look at the impact on the production of cereals and trade flows. We ...

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the ...

You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, ...

The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

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Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

IATP envisions agriculture, trade and food systems that are good for people, farmers and food system workers, ecosystems and social justice globally. IATP is built on the power of systems thinking. We ...

Mexico is facing a growing mountain of hazardous waste, despite an environmental accord with the US and a continental trade deal that were supposed to discourage further environmental degradation. The ...

The term “bet” or “betting” is frequently used in reporting about the trading of commodity futures contracts. For example, “Wheat Climbs as Bearish Investors Trim Bets Among Crop Woes,” the headline ...

The overflow of people at the ECO-FARM conference was bustling with energy. Dr. John Reganold, one of the new heroes of the organic movement, had just presented findings from a study that compared ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...