The dramatic fluctuations in world commodity markets in recent years caused an extended period of deep financial distress for US dairy farms, leading dairy farmers and other dairy interests to ask how dairy policy failed and how it can be fixed.

Initiatives to expand regulation of the food industries with the overall goal of increasing competition and commodity prices farmers receive often have the unintended consequence of raising consumer prices and lowering farmers’ prices while reducing the quality and variety of food products available to consumers.

At this AEI event, experts discuss the need for policy reform in the sugar and dairy industries.

After Congress passes FTAs with Korea, Columbia and Panama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will become the single most important US trade initiative, serving as a building block for a larger Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific Agreement.

The president's trip to meet with leaders and revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closely resembles a trip he took two years ago. We've been down this road before. Past experience cautions against reading too much into Obama's embrace of the TPP.

As Beijing attempts to address the latest food scandal to rock China, countries around the world are demanding action to prevent the spread of contamination.