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The food and farm system is vast, complex and global. The United States occupies an important role in the global food system, ...

For key Trump Administration nominees that oversee government agencies that intersect with farmers, rural communities and our ...

The WWF/World Bank Global Forest Alliance has published a tool for assessing the comprehensiveness of forest certification systems. The Forest Certification Assessment Guide will help determine ...

On October 16, the United Nations will celebrate Freshwater Day in order to highlight the important role water plays in our lives. From the faucet, the shower, through the dishwasher, the clothes ...

On his family farm near St Helens on Merseyside, Johnny Ball looks out over empty fields. He used to keep beef cattle and sheep, but has been forced to sell them. "They went for nothing," he says. He ...

Like the first wave of regional arrangements, launched in the 1950s with the founding of the European Economic Community, the current wave has given rise to a lively debate between free traders who ...

Notes from WTO meeting regarding facilities and arrangements.

New guide allows consumers to avoid name-brand products containing GE foods. WASHINGTON -- In response to the Food and Drug Administration's failure to require labeling for genetically engineered (GE) ...

Many organisations encourage developing countries to privatise water through some form of public private partnership (PPP) or private sector participation (PSP). The alternative of a public sector ...

The conclusion of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Montreal in January of this year was a welcome step toward providing safety in trade in genetically modified living products. Being 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 ...