Central to the survival of small and mid-scale farmers is their right to save, use, exchange and sell their own seeds — that ...

Kenya analyzes Kenya's livestock sector and highlights increasing pressure from U.S. trade flows and Big Ag interests.

As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate ...

World’s largest meat company, JBS, increases emissions in five years despite 2040 net zero climate target, continues to greenwash its huge climate footprint ...

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 ...

The ability to estimate spread in exotic invasive species is a primary concern in management programmes and one for which there is a lack of information on the reliability of methods. Extensive data ...

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 ...

Fearing that the animal drug Baytril -- used to fight infections in chickens -- could pose health risks to humans, the Food and Drug Administration decided to ban its use in poultry.

Following two years of simmering controversy, the U.S. Senate last month voted to approve an international treaty opening up trade relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, Costa ...

The Nels P. Evjue Memorial Forest, better known as the Merrill School Forest, is a place where education meets nature not only for students but for an entire community.

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 ...

Chemist Pavel Krasutsky calls birch bark nature's "white gold." Betulin, a powdery substance in the outer bark of the birch tree, has been shown to help wounds heal faster and cut inflammation. Many ...