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

This paper provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters and importers in international markets. We ...

The future development, management, protection and use of freshwater resources has become a topic of considerable international debate over the past decade, involving a wide range of actors and ...

The overflow of people at the ECO-FARM conference was bustling with energy. Dr. John Reganold, one of the new heroes of the organic movement, had just presented findings from a study that compared ...

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Pregnant women should limit consumption of tuna fish, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended last week in a bid to balance concerns about mercury poisoning with the ...

The group's genetically modified crops were welcomed in the US. It was unprepared for the reaction in Europe, says Michael Skapinker When Monsanto brought its genetically modified food to Europe, ...

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 ...

Under a damp awning of yellowing bigleaf maples, Judith Starbuck is laying waste to a patch of English ivy. A vine at a time, she rips and tugs at the menace creeping through Madrona Woods. Starbuck ...

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 ...

Asia Pulse | February 19, 2003 The success of the Ayala-led Manila Water Company in the Philippines in water distribution covering the East Zone half of Metropolitan Manila has shown that private ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

The National Standards Accreditation Committee for the FSC Board of Directors has delivered a positive accreditation decision for one new FSC regional forest stewardship standard - the Russian ...