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

The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, ...

"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 ...

Is it a dictatorial tool of the rich and powerful? Does it destroy jobs? Does it ignore the concerns of health, the environment and development? Emphatically no. Criticisms of the WTO are often based ...

In the three years of planning for the United Nations conference on development held last month in Monterrey, Mexico, U.S. negotiators steadfastly insisted that the conference was not about more ...

Wetlands, now valued by Minnesotans -- but hardly preserved -- were once considered a scourge, here and elsewhere in the eastern United States. In part this was because wetlands impeded settlement.

The U.S. antidumping law, according to its supporters, ensures "fair trade" by offsetting market distortions caused by foreign governments. Specifically, it allegedly targets "unfair" pricing ...

ELIZABETH TANG Yin-ngor is an experienced general on the protest front: the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chief executive has been a full-time unionist for the past 15 years. But her WTO ...

The first Genetically Modified (GM) crops were introduced onto the market in the mid-nineties. Since then, quick but uneven developments have occurred from one continent or group of countries to ...

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 ...

Describes the Danish system for monitoring antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans, in animals, the link between the two, and the amount of antibiotics used.