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

The Ojibwe tribal members here are paddling into the rice beds again this fall and harvesting wild rice, knocking it in traditional fashion from bending stalks into the bottoms of their canoes. It is ...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 9, 2002 (ENS) - ProdiGene Inc., the company that allowed genetically engineered corn to contaminated about 500,000 bushels of soybeans, will pay a $250,000 fine - the first ...

The main objective of this paper is to review documented evidence of the impacts of climate change trends on forest productivity since the middle of the 20th century.

"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) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...

This recently published EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process ...

The global food system has three principal vectors: (1) the corporate model of industrial and transgenic agriculture, (2) a variety of alternative models concerned with the sustainability of rural ...

From Tuscany to the tip of Sicily, Italy is suffering its worst drought in decades. It has wiped out crops, killed livestock and changed the lives of thousands. Rainfall on Sicily is at its lowest ...

Three quarters of the Western Mediterranean's cork oak forests could be lost within 10 years, threatening an economic and environmental crisis, according to a new WWF report. On the eve of the ...

Maine is leading the nation with a state law that's the first of its kind to promote the purchase of meat from animals that have not been treated with antibiotics unless they were sick. Concerns about ...

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 ...