This week, IATP is in Nairobi hosting a two-day workshop (August 5-6) for the East Africa region on the Agreement on ...

MINNEAPOLIS—In response to the Trump administration’s tariff announcement last week, and ahead of the delayed start date on ...

The Republican budget passed earlier this month took a chainsaw to several foundational pillars that prop up the U.S. food system: public spending for those facing hunger; under-paid immigrant workers ...

THE HINDU / August 21, 1998 / Pg. 10, Col. D. / By Chennai "Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and ...

developers to notify the agency of their intent to market a food or animal feed from a bioengineered plant at least 120 days before marketing. After reviewing the company's submission, FDA will issue ...

In what has been described as its most important vote this year, the U.S. Congress will soon decide whether to provide permanent normal trade relations to China. A vote is required because, after 14 ...

Agence France Presse MONTPELLIER, France, Dec 15 (AFP) - A UN conference on biosafety ended here Friday with a preliminary agreement to set up a data centre to pool knowledge and information about ...

February 28, 2000 / By SCOTT KILMAN, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow ...

NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...

MUNICH -- A global coalition of environmental groups is, accroding to this story, celebrating a major victory in their fight against what they call 'biopiracy'. Last week, the European Patent Office ...

RTbr (Reuters Business Report) / Mon, Nov 27, 2000 / By Randy Fabi WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With only two months left on the job, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said Monday he aimed to finalize ...

New York Times / March 3, 1999 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago ...