Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand in the North and the ...

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

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 ...

Scotland - TIME for the king to abdicate. It's been a bad week for Scottish farming. A television programme has shown one of our biggest piggeries apparently over-run with rats, Professor Pennington, ...

CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, about 300 miles from the company's headquarters ...

The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers ...

Some governments may be sowing the seeds of their own defeat by blocking citizen input in the negotiation of new agreements to expand trade and investment.

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a ...

The assault on the World Trade Center was horrific, despicable, and unpardonable, but it is important not to lose perspective, especially a historical one. For a response that is dictated primarily by ...

Discover what chemicals are in plastics and safer alternatives.

What is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), and what does it mean that nearly all farm animals in the U.S. are now raised in them? Factory farms are a major change from how livestock was ...