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

The White House today will propose stricter regulations for companies wanting to market new varieties of genetically modified crops. However, environmentalists and consumer groups said the plan could ...

What is your idea of the "great outdoors?" Hitting the trails, roaring on your ATV or a quiet walk through the woods? There is a great debate that ranges the length of the state, on whether ATV use ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate and serious threats to our food and trade systems, relations with ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

CORPORATE FARMING OR CORPORATE GREED? The remedy our government is proposing -- under the trade liberalisation regime -- is to hand over our food production to TNCs. In other words, if our farmers ...

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

Forestland ownership patterns can have a significant impact on the long-term continuance of large tracts of forestland as diverse natural forests. In recent years, there has been something of a ...

"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 ...

As a cell biologist I am very much discouraged by the content of the ongoing debate about introducing genetically modified (GM) plants into the marketplace. While the voiced concerns usually center ...