Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in ...

Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition - and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs. In November 2004, Guatemala's Congress repealed ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

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 ...

Notes from WTO meeting regarding facilities and arrangements.

Energy can play a crucial role in underpinning efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and improving the lives of poor people across the world. Lack of access to adequate, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The 1999 congressional legislative session reflects a growing concern among lawmakers for the challenges facing family farm agriculture in the United States, the National Farmers Union ...

Declaration of the Greens in the European Parliament on the forthcoming WTO negotiations and the Millennium Round. World Trade Organization Industrial Livestock ...

Is it a dictatorial tool of the rich and powerful? Does it destroy jobs? Does it ignore the concerns of health, the environment and development? Emphatically no. Criticisms of the WTO are often based ...

In California, the state with the largest agricultural economy in the country, farm work is conducted by a workforce of about 600,000 men and women. From 1991 to 1996 the California EPA's Department ...