IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...

Joining a group of organizations around the country, IATP is taking action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ...

Later today, the White House nominee for Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz will appear before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Quintenz is a former CFTC ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao took centre stage Thursday ahead of an Asia Pacific summit with trade and climate change high on the agenda of his talks with the leaders of Australia and the United States ...

February 28, 2000 / By SCOTT KILMAN, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS EDGERTON, WIS. - Opponents of large-scale dairy farms have won a fight to keep a proposed $10 million, 2,850-cow dairy farm out of Edgerton. "It has been an endless battle" to come up ...

The growth in exports seen in the first half of 2003 ""was sustained by a higher output of commodities, fuels and a few manufactured goods of agricultural origin which need little processing"", ...

by Daniel C. Grant / Illinois Agri News / Friday April 21, 2000 Springfield, Illinois - Representatives of an estimated 600 individuals, who formed a diverse alliance of 180 groups, recently called ...

Any effort to address the ethical questions outlined in this paper will involve two institutional stages: 1) hearings by a Parliamentary committee given a mandate specifically to examine the ethical ...

The 2000 fire season saw 8.4 million acres of public land burned in the US, with a total firefighting cost of over $1.3 billion. This got the attention of former President Clinton, who asked staff to ...

Genes from a genetically engineered grass travel much farther than previously measured and can spread biotech traits to related plants at least 13 miles away, according to a study made public this ...