A wave of new policies is making climate-related disclosures mandatory for a large swath of the global economy, including ...

At first glance, funding climate action through soil carbon credits instead of taxpayer dollars may seem like a win-win ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

Uncertainty is an integral part of agricultural production. This brief discusses lessons learned from recent research on public stockholding programs in developing countries. We make some ...

Claudia Aurand is the associate director of development at IATP. Karen Hansen-Kuhn is the director of trade and international strategies at IATP and works in Washington, D.C. Program Associate for ...

Produced by IATP as part of the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, this four-part limited podcast series examines the history and consequences of factory farms in the Midwest U.S., and the ...

The chemical/biotechnology company Monsanto knew for years that the PCBs it was producing were harmful to people and the environment. This article describes how the company tried to cover up the harm ...

Introduced species are a growing and imminent threat to living marine resources in the United States. Hundreds of species arrive in U.S. waters from overseas each day, playing a game of ecological ...

The United States was a leading force in establishing the World Trade Organization in 1995. The WTO is an international institution in which we negotiate agreements to reduce barriers to trade with ...

The global food system has three principal vectors: (1) the corporate model of industrial and transgenic agriculture, (2) a variety of alternative models concerned with the sustainability of rural ...