The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate and ...

On Oct. 21, representatives of the world’s governments will gather in Cali, Colombia for two weeks of negotiations, side events and maybe some big announcements, too. They will meet as the 16th ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

The WHO international review panel's evaluation of the terminaiton of the use of antimicrobial growth promoters in Denmark. Used under creative commons license from UNEP Climate Change ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

As a cell biologist I am very much discouraged by the content of the ongoing debate about introducing genetically modified (GM) plants into the marketplace. While the voiced concerns usually center ...

The global food system has three principal vectors: (1) the corporate model of industrial and transgenic agriculture, (2) a variety of alternative models concerned with the sustainability of rural ...

FRANKFURT - Germany's Enercon said it will launch a prototype of the world's biggest wind power generator mid-year, outstripping its nearest rival by almost a gigawatt (GW). Privately owned Enercon is ...

This recently published EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process ...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 9, 2002 (ENS) - ProdiGene Inc., the company that allowed genetically engineered corn to contaminated about 500,000 bushels of soybeans, will pay a $250,000 fine - the first ...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a ...