What does it mean to get big or get out? As CAFOs began to take over livestock production in the U.S. through the 1990s, the ...

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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Scotland - TIME for the king to abdicate. It's been a bad week for Scottish farming. A television programme has shown one of our biggest piggeries apparently over-run with rats, Professor Pennington, ...