and examples of existing group certificates in the United States. Opportunities and challenges associated with increasing the use of group certification are also discussed.

This paper examines the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and tries to analyze those areas in which the Agreement will impact, either positively or negatively, on ...

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is happy to announce that it will become the non-profit fiscal sponsor of the Mill City Farmers Market.

This short briefing explains why trade liberalisation talks collapsed in Seattle last week. It sets out why this is not a result of misunderstanding and false fears, but of informed and worldwide ...

addressed before entering into the next millennium.

MOLINE, ILL. - Even as President Bush extols open markets, farmers wonder who wins. With a wheat sale to the former Soviet Union and a call to plant "fence row to fence-row," American farmers jumped ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Some Iowa farmers worry they may have difficulty finding conventional seed for spring planting as increased emphasis is placed on high-tech crops. Companies, such as Pioneer Hi-Bred ...

It goes without saying that 1999 was a difficult year for American farmers and ranchers. Farm prices continued to slump. Natural disasters devastated parts of the American landscape, wreaking billions ...

Download the PDF version here. The current upheaval in trade, climate and other international policies, due in large part to abrupt changes in U.S. domestic and foreign policy imposed by the Trump ...

Last month, IATP had the privilege of attending two important and interrelated events in Nairobi on defunding industrial agriculture and promoting agroecology. The first event was convened by the ...

You have made a laudable public commitment that the United States will take the lead in building a global economy that protects the environment while raising living standards for all people throughout ...