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

In 2024, the planet’s average temperature climbed to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius  above pre-industrial levels for the first ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A landmark trial in Canada will set a precedent for Monsanto's ability to protect its patents on genetically modified crops, says Scott Morrison. Monsanto, the US life sciences group, has been having ...

In California, the state with the largest agricultural economy in the country, farm work is conducted by a workforce of about 600,000 men and women. From 1991 to 1996 the California EPA's Department ...

Columnist Wilson says it is not quite a David and Goliath duel, more like a David and Howard standoff. The David is Suzuki, a renowned Vancouver geneticist, TV host and critic of genetically modified ...

The following letter on the GM crop trials, published in the press in Norfolk UK, is from Dr Jeremy Bartlett who has a doctorate in plant genetics from the John Innes Centre, often described as the UK ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...

When Victoria's Secret senior executive Tom Katzenmeyer saw the full page ad that eco-group ForestEthics ran in the New York Times two years ago assailing the catalogue retailer as a destroyer of ...

This paper provides an outline of the concept and reality of trade facilitation primarily from an emerging economy policy-making perspective.