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Superbug, Super Problems: Agricultural Antibiotics and Emerging Infections

September 16, 2010 1-2 p.m. CDT
Webinar

CAFO cattle

Routine, unnecessary use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry contributes significantly to the costly epidemic of antibiotic resistance. Join three presenters who recently testified before Congress: infectious disease and noted E coli expert, Dr. James Johnson, Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA, and Dr. Gail Hansen, offering a veterinarian's perspective on why health professionals ought to weigh in. Cosponsored by Keep Antibiotics Working.

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IATP's Mini Farmers Markets

IATP Media

Radio Sustain

August 10

  • Joe Rice, director of the Na-Way-Ee Center School, connects students to food with the school garden.
  • What used to be an empty grass plot is now a 40' by 60' garden providing fresh food to the community. Pastor Steve Lomen fills us in.
  • IATP Food and Society Fellow Andy Fisher on what stands between those on federal food assistance and shopping at farmers markets.
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Mini farmers markets: Fresh local produce in Minneapolis

IATP mini farmers markets
IATP's mini farmers market project has more than tripled in the past two years. Located primarily in Minneapolis neighborhoods with limited access to healthy foods, the markets bring fresh, local produce direct to the community.

Food Reserves: Stabilizing Markets, Investing in Farmers and Achieving Food Security

IATP co-hosted a civil society meeting in Brussels on food reserves as a tool to respond to global hunger on June 1–2.

Health professionals get active on food and farm policy

Healthy Food Action
The health community sees the impacts of our food system every day but often gets left out of national debates about food and farm policy.

Healthy Food Action makes it simple for health professionals to engage in major public policy debates that affect our food system. It provides both vital information and easy-to-use tools to contact legislators, government officials and companies.

July 21 Wall Street reform bill to limit excessive speculation in ag

The Wall Street reform bill signed by President Obama will severely restrict excessive speculation on agriculture commodity futures markets that has harmed U.S. farmers and countries battling hunger.

U.S. agriculture and carbon offsets

Combine Agriculture has a real and significant role to play in combating climate change but these opportunities are not being optimized, and in fact, may be squandered in current legislation under consideration.

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