The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate 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 ...

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 ...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

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 - ...

Fresh fears over the safety of genetically modified foods surfaced faced yesterday after new research revealed that food allergies relating to soya increased by 50 percent last year. A study by Europe ...

At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a ...

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) announced today that Lee Wallace has been hired as the new Chief Executive Officer at Peace Coffee, the award-winning, 100 percent fair trade and ...

ANTIBIOTICS, one of the great medical advances of the 20th century, are being threatened by their careless use in the 21st century. Time and again, disease-causing bacteria in humans become resistant ...

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.

On 15th August it emerged that Bayer's new agricultural wing, Bayer CropScience (1), was responsible for the illegal planting of genetically modified (GM) oil seed rape (OSR) contaminated with an ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, November 12, 2002 (ENS) - Some of the Phoenix area's poorest neighborhoods also have the region's highest concentration of toxic hazards, conclude two new studies by researchers at ...