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 ...

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 ...

Forestland ownership patterns can have a significant impact on the long-term continuance of large tracts of forestland as diverse natural forests. In recent years, there has been something of a ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

Since that time, ardent fans have struggled to pull the chestnut back from the brink. Most of their efforts have relied on old-fashioned breeding techniques - investing the tree with blight-resistance ...

LONDON - A wide range of dietary supplements sold in the UK, along with some prawns, shrimps, herbs and spices, have been irradiated in breach of food regulations, a survey by the food watchdog showed ...

A Minneapolis mom recently learned that ordinary, household items are contaminating her family. "Everyday household things could be doing our kids harm and we don't even really understand what they ...

Giant sequoia trees are tough, long-lived organisms. Their survival strategy, perfected over millions of years, is to live for dozens of centuries. Most everyone knows this, but much of what the trees ...