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

MINNEAPOLIS — The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate and serious threats to our food and trade systems, relations with ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

Forestland ownership patterns can have a significant impact on the long-term continuance of large tracts of forestland as diverse natural forests. In recent years, there has been something of a ...

Susan Arterian Chang discusses various state models to curb electricity demand, highlighting Delaware's SEU. IEEE Spectrum Online.

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

"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 ...

Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and leads to nutrient deficiency diseases in humans and livestock. In the ...

A new forest and wildland health assessment center has opened for business. The Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center in Prineville is one of two pioneer research hubs charged with ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a cell biologist I am very much discouraged by the content of the ongoing debate about introducing genetically modified (GM) plants into the marketplace. While the voiced concerns usually center ...