MINNEAPOLIS— On Sept. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to approve final guidance to commodity exchanges planning to offer new derivatives contracts whose underlying assets are ...

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, ...

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

IATP’s new report highlights the risks of climate change for import dependent and major food producing countries, with a special look at the impact on the production of cereals and trade flows. We ...

The overflow of people at the ECO-FARM conference was bustling with energy. Dr. John Reganold, one of the new heroes of the organic movement, had just presented findings from a study that compared ...

Minneapolis - Traditional Minnesota wild rice, a staple for many Minnesotans and sacred food for tribal communities, could be threatened by research being done at the University of Minnesota, assert ...

View PDF of this report. Executive Summary This paper provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters ...

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Pregnant women should limit consumption of tuna fish, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended last week in a bid to balance concerns about mercury poisoning with the ...

Constance Carlson is the assistant statewide director for the University of Minnesota Extension: Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships.

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

IATP envisions agriculture, trade and food systems that are good for people, farmers and food system workers, ecosystems and social justice globally. IATP is built on the power of systems thinking. We ...

The group's genetically modified crops were welcomed in the US. It was unprepared for the reaction in Europe, says Michael Skapinker When Monsanto brought its genetically modified food to Europe, ...