IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...

Joining a group of organizations around the country, IATP is taking action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ...

Later today, the White House nominee for Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz will appear before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Quintenz is a former CFTC ...

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 ...

The growth in exports seen in the first half of 2003 ""was sustained by a higher output of commodities, fuels and a few manufactured goods of agricultural origin which need little processing"", ...

The 2000 fire season saw 8.4 million acres of public land burned in the US, with a total firefighting cost of over $1.3 billion. This got the attention of former President Clinton, who asked staff to ...

NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has agreed to acquire Smithfield Foods Inc.'s Schneider Corp. unit for US$378 million, or about C$515 million, including the assumption of debt. \r\n\r\nIn a news release, Maple ...

Genes from a genetically engineered grass travel much farther than previously measured and can spread biotech traits to related plants at least 13 miles away, according to a study made public this ...

The Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida is crisscrossed with so many illegal swamp-buggy ruts - more than 23,000 miles of them - that park officials in August began limiting off-road vehicles to ...

The Sierra Club is claiming a major victory after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored a suit that environmental groups filed to require the Forest Service to study effects of proposed ...