WASHINGTON, D.C. — Civil society groups in the U.S., Mexico and Canada criticized a decision today announced by a dispute panel set up under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The panel ruled ...

Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in rural communities where the highly polluting operations are located.

An Interview with Peter M. Rosset, Ph.D. is executive director of the Oakland, California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy -- better known as Food First -- a nonprofit "people's" think ...

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...

Fresh fears over the safety of genetically modified foods surfaced faced yesterday after new research revealed that food allergies relating to soya increased by 50 percent last year. A study by Europe ...

Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper says he is resigning and that he takes full responsibility for the riots that disrupted the World Trade Organization meeting and brought chaos to the city's streets.

Industrialized agricultural systems are energy-intensive, highly polluting and a major driver of the global climate crisis. Livestock in factory farms pump enormous quantities of potent greenhouse gas ...

A four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them. A concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO – better known as a factory farm – is a ...

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 ...

Our Community Food Systems program works at the intersection of policy and practice in Minnesota. IATP’s Community Food Systems program strives to build vibrant community-based food systems that give ...

Every five years, Congress comes together to pass a major omnibus bill called the Farm Bill, which sets the course for our food and agriculture systems in the United States. 2023 is a Farm Bill year.