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

On Oct. 21, representatives of the world’s governments will gather in Cali, Colombia for two weeks of negotiations, side events and maybe some big announcements, too. They will meet as the 16th ...

"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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 9, 2002 (ENS) - ProdiGene Inc., the company that allowed genetically engineered corn to contaminated about 500,000 bushels of soybeans, will pay a $250,000 fine - the first ...

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 ...

The Ojibwe tribal members here are paddling into the rice beds again this fall and harvesting wild rice, knocking it in traditional fashion from bending stalks into the bottoms of their canoes. It is ...

The main objective of this paper is to review documented evidence of the impacts of climate change trends on forest productivity since the middle of the 20th century.

SYDNEY - Australian scientists announced yesterday a breakthrough in efforts to clone the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, saying they had replicated some of the animal's genes using DNA extracted from ...

An 11th-hour effort has sprouted to stop a controversial peat-mining operation that was about to be developed near Big Falls. Access roads already are being built to the site, in the Pine Island State ...

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 ...

This paper uses open sources to examine any topic with the potential to cause threats to public or national security.

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 ...