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

Minneapolis - Traditional Minnesota wild rice, a staple for many Minnesotans and sacred food for tribal communities, could be threatened by research being done at the University of Minnesota, assert ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

David Frenk, Better Markets, Inc. Frenk et al review both the methodology and the data of a Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development preliminary study by Irwin and Sanders that purports ...

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 ...

Did animals forecast the disaster? That's the question stumping wildlife officials in Sri Lanka, where the human death toll climbs daily from the worst tsunamis in memory, but there are few dead ...

Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and leads to nutrient deficiency diseases in humans and livestock. In the ...

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 Canadian company that harvests ice from icebergs to make beer and vodka has signed a deal to export freshwater from Greenland. Iceberg Corporation of America was the first company in Canada licensed ...

The Sustainable Woods Cooperative (Spring Green, Wisconsin) has many activities already planned for this year - including a workshop about controlling invasive plants, a spring wildflower hike, a ...