The United States must respect Indigenous rights in Mexico GM corn case cecelia brackey Thu, 04/11/2024 - 13:33 The following op-ed was originally published by Food Tank on April 10, 2024.  ..read more

How EQIP can be improved to serve more farmers and the climate Author Michael Happ Summary This report takes a close look at the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farmer-focused conservation cost-share program run by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the report, we examine the agricultural practices that EQIP helps farmers finance, how much funding went toward these practices in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, including additional funding through the Inflation Reduction Act, and the practices’ relationships wi ..read more

New report calls for reforms to Farm Bill-funded EQIP to better serve more farmers and build climate resilience MINNEAPOLIS—A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no conservation benefits, while two-thirds of farmer applicants were rejected from the program in 2023. As Congress debates the next Farm Bill, the report offers recommendations on how Farm Bill-funded EQIP should be reformed to help more ..read more

Author Michael Happ Author (free form) Jesse Womack, NSAC policy specialist  NSAC members The following comment was sent to Deputy Chief, Science and Technology Noller Herbert and National Climate Coordinator Dana Ashford-Kornburger of the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture on March 15, 2024.  Deputy Chief Herbert and Coordinator Ashford-Kornburger, Thank you for the work you do in service of the United States’ farmers, ranchers, and eaters, as well as our soil and water resources. On behalf of the National Sustainable Agricu ..read more

Author Karen Hansen-Kuhn Sharon Anglin Treat Author (free form) Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition Mily Trevino-Sauceda, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Inc.  The following submission was made to the dispute settlement panel in MEX-USA-2023-31-01 under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement USMCA on March 14, 2024.  I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the Rural Coalition and the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas are submitting these written views to assist the dispute settlement panel in MEX-USA-2023-r31-01 under the United States-Mexico ..read more

México defiende con ciencia las restricciones al maíz transgénico cecelia brackey Thu, 03/14/2024 - 14:42 Un análisis de la respuesta de México en la disputa del T-MEC Lea el artículo en inglés aquí. Read the article in English here.  ..read more

Mexico defends GM corn restrictions with science cecelia brackey Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:11 An analysis of Mexico’s response to the U.S. in the USMCA dispute Read the article in Spanish here. Lea el artículo en español aqu ..read more

Public food and agriculture companies to report climate-related financial risks, full supply chain emissions requirement dropped MINNEAPOLIS—Today, by a 3-2 vote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved its final rule on the disclosure of climate-related financial expenditures, costs and risks, including those related to greenhouse gas emissions. The rule applies to U.S. companies, including food and agriculture firms, listed for trade on SEC-regulated exchanges. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) applauds the SEC for finalizing a mandatory regime fo ..read more

Five tests for the FAO’s plan to end hunger and slash greenhouse gas emissions cecelia brackey Fri, 03/01/2024 - 11:48 The following opinion by Emile Frison, panel expert with the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), and Sophia Murphy, executive director of IATP was originally published by Future World News on February 28.  ..read more

Hardline U.S. Stance Ignores Non-GM Corn Opportunity for U.S. Farmers cecelia brackey Thu, 02/29/2024 - 11:23 The following article was originally published by Food Tank.  ..read more