Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Climate-smart farming has risen the ranks in Midwest states

Since 2021, EQIP contracts for "climate-smart" practices have increased above general practices in all 12 Midwest states with ...
IATP

Learning from Germany’s decades of public biogas support

While biogas — energy produced mostly from crops or animal manure — has long been promoted as part of the European Union’s (EU) energy transition, it now receives renewed attention as a tool to ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyOpinion

IATP joins ICE OUT Minnesota statewide strike

IATP is joining hundreds of businesses, faith communities, labor unions, schools, and nonprofits across Minnesota on Friday, ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyOpinion

Trump administration throws money at an emerging farm crisis, with no end in sight

On New Year’s Eve, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the details for $11 billion of a $12 billion farm ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

An Update from Minneapolis: What’s going on, and how you can help

While we work nationally and internationally, IATP is deeply rooted in our home state of Minnesota and our city of ...
Opinion
Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyOpinion

USDA funding freeze is latest in string of federal attacks on Minnesota programs

The announcement continues a concerning trend of partisanship within the USDA, hurting its credibility and harming our farmers, rural communities, and those facing hunger ...
IATP

Companies: dominating the market from farm to display case

Read the full Meat Atlas 2021: Facts and figures about the animals we eat, by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Friends of the Earth Europe and BUND. The following is an excerpt contributed by IATP. Global ...
IATP

Farmer bailout package is a quick fix that fails to address systemic issues

MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration announced a $12 billion farmer bailout package today, created to soften the blow of diminished export markets due to the administration’s own chaotic trade ...
IATP

Feeding Climate Change: A scoring of major meat and dairy companies’ climate-related risk and emissions reporting

As the world hurtles toward climate tipping points, few sectors of the global economy sit more squarely at the crossroads of vulnerability and responsibility than agriculture. Extreme weather events ...
IATP

Meeting EU climate targets: Building sustainable food systems can reduce reliance on risky tech solutions

The debate about the European Union’s 2040 climate target has raised many questions about what is necessary to achieve it. The European Commission’s own modelling shows that focusing on more ...
IATP

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions

The global livestock sector is estimated to be responsible for between 12% and 19% of total human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it one of the world’s highest emitting sectors. This new ...
IATP

The Republican budget chainsaws the food system

The Republican budget passed earlier this month took a chainsaw to several foundational pillars that prop up the U.S. food system: public spending for those facing hunger; under-paid immigrant workers ...