"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 ...
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 ...
YAWALAPIT - Where Brazil's massive central savanna meets the Amazon jungle lives an Indian chief who has turned the tide of history. There, on the banks of the Tuatuari River chief Aritana of the ...
The rise of factory farms in the U.S. didn't happen by accident. Corporate influence over our political system has created policies that subsidize and incentivize the industrial model and allow ...
Rather than destroy the frozen meat or cook it to kill pathogens, executives at one of the world's largest food conglomerates sold it to other countries with lower standards than South Korea's - ...
This briefing book is part of our effort to increase awareness now while the trend toward patenting life can still be influenced. We end with a list of resources for those seeking further information.
In January, it was hard to imagine how European agriculture would ever balance the needs of farmers, consumers and the planet. Tractors were blocking motorways in protests across the continent. Yet, ...
Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...
CONFERENCE ATTEMPTING TO FACILITATE A COALITION OF GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND ACADEMICS TO ENSURE A FUTURE FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS THROUGH A BIOTECH PROTOCOL. PERTH ANDOVER, N.B. -- Potato ...