Despite the profound impact climate change is already having on farmers and food production, governments have been slow to ...

Somewhere deep in an unmapped ravine or inaccessible creek bottom in Northern California hides a secret. If it exists - and it might not - it would be as old as the Roman Colosseum, yet it has never ...

This packet contains material on our priorities for the new round as well as information on the member organizations of the coalition and how they may be contacted during the Seattle talks.

A group of persons interested in landscaping with native plants is forming a local chapter of "Wild Ones" in NE Minnesota to promote sustainable landscaping. Activities will include sharing ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns continued USDA's nationwide farm bill listening tour in late August with a Deep South stop at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Johanns jotted notes as farmers ...

According to this story, traditional selective breeding, although a genetic modification itself, takes place within compatible species: tomatoes to tomatoes; dogs to dogs, or at least coyotes. Genetic ...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

Several things are clear about the 2002 farm bill. First, neither recent budget considerations nor international commitments to WTO rules have constrained farm spending levels or policy instruments, ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...

Some of the nation's farmers have found a dependable crop that always gives a high yield: The federal subsidy At first glance, it's hard to reconcile corn at rock-bottom prices and farmland in the ...

A persons's journal of events in Seattle during the WTO Ministerial in 1999.

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 ...