You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, ...

The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

"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 ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

Wetlands, now valued by Minnesotans -- but hardly preserved -- were once considered a scourge, here and elsewhere in the eastern United States. In part this was because wetlands impeded settlement.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The government added Belgian butter to its list of banned foods today, denying residents yet another key ingredient in their increasingly meager diet because of the dioxin ...

A landmark trial in Canada will set a precedent for Monsanto's ability to protect its patents on genetically modified crops, says Scott Morrison. Monsanto, the US life sciences group, has been having ...

MONSANTO AND OTHER GENE GIANTS ARE TRYING TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE WORLD AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, INCLUDING P.E.I.'S, CITY MEETING TOLD. Tony Clarke, vice-chair of the Council of Canadians, was cited as ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, ...

A book review of Protecting Our Environment: German Perspectives on a Global Challenge.