Central to the survival of small and mid-scale farmers is their right to save, use, exchange and sell their own seeds — that ...

Kenya analyzes Kenya's livestock sector and highlights increasing pressure from U.S. trade flows and Big Ag interests.

As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate ...

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 ...

Following two years of simmering controversy, the U.S. Senate last month voted to approve an international treaty opening up trade relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, Costa ...

North Dakota is weighing a bill that would make it the first state to ban planting of a genetically modified crop, reflecting a surge of concern about such crops in legislatures around the country.

This article aims to provide scientific information and resources to help communities and individuals make informed decisions about environmental and public health issues. The mission is to foster ...

Police raided 19 clandestine sawmills near a threatened nature reserve where Monarch butterflies nest in the winter, arresting 56 people and confiscating enough illegally logged wood to fill 600 heavy ...

ADM, USDA & U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: NEW EVIDENCE BEING SUBMITTED TO JUDGE CHARGING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND COVERUP New evidence, including documents and audiotape that implicates the ...

New York Times / March 3, 1999 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago ...

IN THE WORLD OF MOLECULAR FARMING, PLANTS ARE LIVING FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE CHEAP DRUGS, PLASTICS, EVEN HUMAN BLOOD PROTEINS. RESEARCHERS HOPE - AND CRITICS FEAR - WE'LL REAP WHAT WE SOW. Ste-Foy, Que ...

Cargill Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its North Star Steel unit, including its St. Paul steel mill that employs 430 workers, to Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. of Canada in a deal valued at ...