Minnesota has supported schools in purchasing local foods and equipment for more than a decade through the state’s Agricultural Growth, Research, and Innovation (AGRI) Farm to School Grant Program, ...

"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 ...

An indicative list of activities that could be carried out under the tasks identified in the programme of work on Article 8(j) and related provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

This paper estimates a gravity model to address the issue of whether intra-Arab trade is too little. Although gravity models have been extensively used to measure bilateral trade amoung countries, ...

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 ...

Neenah Paper Inc. has agreed to buy Fox River Paper Co., an Appleton producer of premium fine papers, for an undisclosed price. Alpharetta, Ga.-based Neenah Paper said Tuesday that it signed a ...

Congressman Larry Combest (R-TX), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, decided several weeks ago that he needed help in finding a solution to the mess in the farm economy. The criteria ...

BEIJING (AP) - Trade between China and the United States should reach a record $73.5 billion this year, with China racking up yet another enormous trade surplus, the government's Xinhua News Agency ...

Just about everybody ignored the safety rules on a kind of biotech corn called Starlink. Luckily, no one died from eating it. But what if someone had? For anyone in the business of growing corn, one ...

To be broadcast as a FRONTLINE special on September 21, 22 & 23 at 9 pm. (Check local listings.) David Sutherland's film THE FARMER'S WIFE is a landmark documentary portrait of three years in the life ...

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 ...

In an open letter to the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs), the Rural Advancement Fund International (RAFI) charges it has documented ...