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 In November 2004, Guatemala's Congress repealed ...

"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 ...

MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow farmers are lining up to hear him speak, academics are studying his ways, and ...

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.

Flooding and Drought -- the Effects of Global Warming? Source: Environmental Defense Network , August 20, 2002. This is one summer to remember: Europe is experiencing some of the worst flooding in a ...

Today the movement against corporate-driven globalization is at a decisive juncture. There are different proposals on how to move forward. Oftentimes, clarification of the demands of the moment are ...

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, ...

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 ...

Any effort to address the ethical questions outlined in this paper will involve two institutional stages: 1) hearings by a Parliamentary committee given a mandate specifically to examine the ethical ...