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Introducing: the EU Agriculture and Climate Dashboard

Today, we’re introducing IATP’s EU Agriculture and Climate Dashboard, a growing project that presents key climate change related data for the European Union’s (EU) and its Member States’ current food ...
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What a trip to Beijing taught me about food and power

Smallholder farms contribute one third of all the food consumed in high-income countries like the U.S., but smallholder ...
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Putting agriculture on the climate agenda with the EU Governance Regulation

After Europe’s summer break — with wildfires and heatwaves leaving scars on its human and animal populations — the European Union’s (EU) institutions will pick up the discussions about how the region ...
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New rules for U.S. trade policy beyond the chaos

Trade policy has been in the news lately, whether it’s the breakdown in trade talks between Canada and the U.S. or the sudden lurches as the administration tries to justify replacing the tariffs ...
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Contamination by Design: How an industrial food system has driven the cyclospora outbreak

Regulatory neglect, corporate consolidation, and poor labor conditions contribute to the spread of a diarrhea-causing parasite The outbreak has resulted in anxiety in Doctor Mora and the wider lettuce ...
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Agreements on Reciprocal Trade lock in corporate control over the food system

Since the beginning of his second term, the Trump administration has negotiated bilateral Agreements on Reciprocal Trade (ART) in exchange for easing tariff rates. To be clear, despite the name, these ...
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One step forward, two steps back for conservation

IATP has been analyzing farmer participation in two of the United States’ most popular conservation programs since 2021. In our latest analysis, we find that in fiscal year 2025 (FY2025), ...
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EU bets on voluntary action to reduce agricultural emissions, but who’s buying it?

The European Commission has spent the last few years exploring policy options for putting a price on agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — which, in turn would mandate GHG emission reductions ...
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Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure

As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper. In episode one of ...
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Open letter to Irish leaders to reduce methane pollution for just transition in agri-food sector

Ireland is finalizing its climate protection targets to the year 2040. Rather than face that challenge directly, the Irish government is considering embracing a “no additional warming” approach to ...
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Companies preparing for climate disclosure laws are voluntarily disclosing more — but stragglers remain

An update to our Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard finds more companies are disclosing more about their climate risk and emissions as new mandatory global reporting requirements go into effect. Today ...
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USDA’s new Regenerative Agriculture Initiative: A step forward or greenwashing?

In late 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a Regenerative Agriculture Pilot ...