Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet ...

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand in the North and the ...

The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers ...

Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and ...

"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 ...

In recent years antidumping has been catapulted to the forefront of the most controversial practices in international trade. In view of the importance of antidumping to international trade and the ...

The assault on the World Trade Center was horrific, despicable, and unpardonable, but it is important not to lose perspective, especially a historical one. For a response that is dictated primarily by ...

MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow farmers are lining up to hear him speak, academics are studying his ways, and ...

A tribunal set up to redress injustices under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement has rejected a Canadian businessman's attempt to rescue his business after a Mississippi jury sent ...

Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and leads to nutrient deficiency diseases in humans and livestock. In the ...

CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, about 300 miles from the company's headquarters ...