"Wisconsin and its battered dairy farmers sit in the middle, eyeing the stability of Canada, wary of a future that looks more like Mexico."

Thanks to MRCC @ iowacci Dakota Rural Action Land Stewardship Project et al for delivering message that no COOL in #USMCA is a dealbreaker.

Me here on regen ag - "It's a good thing for companies to acknowledge that the system is damaging the climate and look for ways to reduce emissions." But "Are they going to pay farmers more money to raise crops or animals in a different way?" nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c… via NBC News

The #trade deficit is a poor way to measure trade - it masks who really benefits. More pertinent ?s - Are gains from trade deals primarily going to multinationals, is trade reducing income inequality, lifting wages/incomes, strengthening communities? - nyti.ms/2CkYaDj

For the tenth year, tens of thousands have descended on central Berlin to demand changes in farming and food systems. So what were they demanding? #WHES2020 arc2020.eu/whes2020-27000…

Alejandro Nadal, dear friend and brilliant Mexican economist, died last week, far too young and vibrant. True to Nadal, he submitted his last weekly column for La Jornada on deadline six days before he died. Here is a translation Triple Crisis. triplecrisis.com/economic-crisi…

My colleague Shiney Varghese on the farm protests in India, a lot of which is about the struggle for fair prices. iatp.org/blog/202012/in…

In 1885, a 19 year old Vermont farmer became the first person to photograph a snowflake. Wilson Bentley (that was his name) went on to shoot thousands & thousands of them over the next few decades.

“Scaling up agroecological efforts through climate resilient approaches like millet farming will go a long way in achieving local food and water security while ending hunger and malnutrition," says Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). By Anne Pinto-Rodrigues in YES! Magazine yesmagazine.org/environment/20…

The U.S. should not undermine small/medium-scale family-owned dairies regardless of whose borders surround them. Everybody works too hard for processors and fake cooperatives to profit from their labors. We need #fairprices #balancedmarkets #supplymanagement

So glad to join so many groups calling on the Biden administration to support the #TRIPSWaiver at the WTO in order to ramp up global production of COVID vaccines and treatments

More than 300 Mexican organizations speak out to support for plans for food labeling, phasing out glyphosate, GMOs -- the result of more than 20 years of struggle in defense of campesino agriculture and food sovereignty. English version here: iatp.org/documents/camp…

Mexican Without Corn No Country campaign defends glyphosate/GMO ban, opposes control by “a few companies that make the decisions about what we eat and how it is produced."

Big Pharma, IP ideologues & others are going to go into all-out assault mode to delay and weaken a final #TRIPSwaiver, so a lot more work is needed — but today's announcement by the Biden admin is a HUGE initial victory & a real testament to the work of activists around the world

This is such wonderful news and a real testament to the work of thousands of activists in the U.S. and around the world who have pushed so hard for it. CTC Public Citizen

Includes some new elements in recent US and UK trade deals that offer, well, not exactly hope, but some steps forward on trade and environment.

The US has been floating some ideas on a carbon fee CBAM, but EU is first with a proposal. It's a tricky issue to balance local action on climate with challenges of imports -- and global fairness

Really disappointing that this decision undermines Canadian dairy supply management, which is good for farmers and the climate. We in the U.S. should be learning from it, not tearing it down.

The U.S. should join Mexico to improve food systems rather than responding to corporate pressure to export without limits. Read more of our coverage and analysis of the U.S.-Mexico GM corn dispute: iatp.org/food-sovereign…

In a decision released late Friday afternoon, a USMCA dispute panel ruled against Mexico’s policy banning GM white corn for human consumption. Civil society groups in Mexico, the U.S. & Canada, including IATP, condemned the ruling. Read our press release: iatp.org/PR-usmca-corn-…