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

IATP is joining hundreds of businesses, faith communities, labor unions, schools, and nonprofits across Minnesota on Friday, ...

Since 2021, EQIP contracts for "climate-smart" practices have increased above general practices in all 12 Midwest states with help from IRA funding  Summary ...

In 2022, Congress and President Biden recognized publicly the threat that climate change poses to agriculture, as well as the ways agriculture can contribute to climate solutions. In that vein, they ...

Climate mitigation projects in the agriculture sector, particularly those focused on storing carbon in soils, are increasingly being tied to carbon markets. But the impact of these initiatives is ...

Minnesota’s strong network of public health advocates connected UCAP and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) in July 2017, when a colleague from the MN Farm to Early Care Coalition ...

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 ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a ...

The world urgently needs more diversified and healthier food systems, environmentally and socially sound agricultural practices, and more equitable economic outcomes. A central lever for recognizing ...

While we work nationally and internationally, IATP is deeply rooted in our home state of Minnesota and our city of Minneapolis, where we have been based since our founding nearly 40 years ago. Since ...

Trade ministers from around the world preparing for next month's crucial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong are so concerned that they will leave empty-handed that they are already ...

Have you ever purchased a traditional ingredient such as Hmong greens (Zaub Paaj) or lemongrass at your local farmers market and wanted to serve it to children you care for? Or prepared one of your ...