Early signs suggested AGOA could spur economic and jobs growth, as trade volumes grew from $17 billion in the first year to $80 billion in 2008. Initially, AGOA enjoyed strong bipartisan support as ...

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is pleased to announce Sophia Murphy as IATP’s new executive director. Sophia is a leader on global food security, international trade and corporate ...

After years of underfunding and oversubscription, fiscal year 2024 (FY24) saw thousands more farmers enroll in two federal conservation cost share programs: the Environmental Quality Incentives ...

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 ...

The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since the government started tracking in 1980. A smaller cattle herd has led to ...

Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions trading is the major mitigation instrument of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This paper analyzes the economic theory of ...

Since the 2007-8 food crisis, when spikes in prices for global commodity crops raised the specter of food shortages, Africa has seen a surge in funding to help local food producers grow more of the ...

Across the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) local service centers provide essential person-to-person resources for farmers and rural landowners. Loans, grants and conservation ...

as "a bunch of Luddites," and he says that all such people are under the notice their agrarian critics, but when a little dog snaps at the heels of a big dog long enough, now and again the big dog ...

In IATP’s 2021 report Closed out: How U.S. farmers are denied access to conservation programs, we showed that for years, farmers have been turned away from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ...

The recent spikes in global food-prices in 2007-08 served as a wake-up call to the global community on the inadequacies of our global food system. Commodity prices doubled, the estimated number of ...

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), ...