The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since ...

What EU budget negotiations mean for more sustainable and agroecological farming  The European Commission has proposed major ...

Intended to clarify the content of the Right to Adequate Food and the responsibilities of all actors involved. A guide for conduct of international community, states, others to focus policy and ...

A La Plata County landowner and a Bayfield logger will be recognized for their sustainable forestry practices. On Friday, Brunhilde "Bruni" Bradley and Eric Husted will receive awards from the San ...

By Danielle Knight WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by ...

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 ...

Mineral scarcity poses global risk for agriculture and public health Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and ...

An NDP government would fight to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement to enhance protection for Canadian jobs, NDP leader Jack Layton said yesterday in Hamilton, Ont. "We want a new NAFTA.

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...