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Bush Admin Exporting Flawed Food Safety System
WTO Failing Food Aid
WTO, Farm Bill and the Status Quo
New Vision for Trade in the U.S.Over 50 members of Congress have endorsed a new vision for trade that includes a review of existing agreements and principles to guide future trade deals, including support for family farmers in all countries.
IATP at FAO Meeting on Food Crisis
Biofuels Affecting Biodiversity
Food, Water and Climate ChallengesIn a new commentary, IATP's Shiney Varghese explores the interaction between the current food crisis, access to water and climate change.
Time to Renegotiate NAFTA
Trade Rules and Biofuels
The Global System Needs a Makeover
Biological Globalization
Can Free Trade Cure All?WTO Director Pascal Lamy recently argued that free trade is the best insurance against volatile financial markets. In a new commentary, IATP's Alexandra Strickner and ATTAC's Christian Felber question whether trade expansion is the solution.
New WTO Ag Text Falls Short - Again
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The Bush Administration's proposed import food safety system prioritizes trade over public health, finds a new report by IATP's Steve Suppan.
The latest WTO text on food aid would allow an inefficient and trade distorting U.S. system to continue. IATP, Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Oxfam America have written trade ministers calling for limits on the sale of food aid.
The 2008 U.S. Farm Bill and proposed new agriculture trade rules at the WTO will largely continue the status quo, write IATP's Sophia Murphy and Steve Suppan. Both developments point to the need to rethink agriculture trade policy in the U.S. and around the world.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization is meeting on the food crisis in Rome, June 3-5. The directors of the WTO, World Bank and UN will be attending. So will IATP's Carin Smaller - and she'll be blogging about events inside and outside the meeting.
Increasing production of crops for biofuels is exacerbating agriculture's impact on biodiversity in many parts of the world, finds a new report by the IATP.
International trade and investment rules will influence the future of the emerging biofuel sector, finds a new paper by IATP's Sophia Murphy.
In a new article in Trade Insight, IATP's Carin Smaller writes that we need a new global system where financial and trade institutions work together with the United Nations to address global challenges.
First comprehensive book on bio-invasions from the leading Dutch environmental research organization, CLM.
Biological Globalisation: Bio-invasions and their impacts on nature, the economy and public health is a thorough and informative overview of all aspects of bioglobalisation. It describes its nature and scope, as well as history, drivers and mechanisms. Using vivid examples, the book addresses which species are likely to become invasive, which bioregions are vulnerable, and whether we can and should try to control bio-invasions
New draft agricultural trade rules at the World Trade Organization fail to repair a deeply flawed and unpopular negotiating agenda, says IATP.
Global Dialogue
IATP's Global Dialogue Project is a partnership that focuses on alternatives for U.S. and EU agricultural, food and energy policy.
Green Chemistry
The Green Chemistry revolution is making safer products and protecting human health and the environment.
NAFTA
NAFTA leaves a huge footprint on the U.S. and the world. As Washington gears up for the debate, IATP analyzes what's at stake.
Water
From ethanol to privatization, water is a hot issue in trade and agriculture worldwide. Trade Observatory has document and headline collections dedicated to water issues.
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July 24
Special Food Crisis Edition: Sophia Murphy on the causes of the food crisis, Carin Smaller on what's being done, and Anne Laure Constantin on the benefits of higher food prices.
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