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

New York (Sept. 18, 2003) - Monsanto's evolution to a company driven by its seeds and traits business is continuing to make measurable progress as the company moves forward on its strategic priorities ...

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

Some years back, Oman made an unusual request to India. The oil-rich Middle-East country was looking for four pure-bred animals of the cattle breed - Tharparkar -- found only in the dry and arid ...

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.

This paper presents the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the Malaysian economy with specific attention to its environmental implications, and regulatory measures to shield harmful effects.

Sometimes you have to explore a place's past to understand what makes it tick. In the case of Suffield, you can't just go back to the town's founding in 1670. You have to go back 20,000 years. That's ...

Many chefs understand the benefits of buying directly from a local farmer. Local farmers are can provide a fresh tasting, high quality product with a longer shelf life. A chef that develops an ongoing ...

This note is intended to assist in the preparation of offers, requests and national schedules of specific commitments. Its objective is to explain, in a concise manner, how specific commitments should ...

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 ...

Webster Groves building contractor Steve Cassilly is strolling down the aisles of a natural foods store, checking out labels. His ritual is designed to avoid biologically engineered food additives and ...