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 ...

In a confidential analysis, the World Trade Organization Secretariat has found that Brazil would have to reduce its applied tariffs on industrial goods under the cuts proposed by Non-Agricultural ...

Introducing a new hybrid of the American chestnut tree would not only bring back the all-but-extinct species, but also put a dent in the amount of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere, according to a new ...

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.

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's new Director of International Programs Karen Hansen-Kuhn talks about joining IATP.

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, ...

This recently published EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process ...

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 ...

Description of the Spanish program to monitor antibiotic resistance, including isolates of bacteria from sick animals, as well as from healthy food animals.

A team of US scientists has completed and made publicly available a draft genomic sequence of the crop-killing fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the National Science Foundation said today. Ralph Dean, a ...

The state of emergency on the streets of downtown Seattle has been the focus of mainstream media. However, inside the Convention centre there is a state of emergency which has escaped media attention.