IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...

Joining a group of organizations around the country, IATP is taking action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ...

Later today, the White House nominee for Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz will appear before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Quintenz is a former CFTC ...

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 ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office is soon expected to release final guidelines that will be used to determine whether a gene-related patent will be granted by the office. Generally, the biotech ...

IN THE WORLD OF MOLECULAR FARMING, PLANTS ARE LIVING FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE CHEAP DRUGS, PLASTICS, EVEN HUMAN BLOOD PROTEINS. RESEARCHERS HOPE - AND CRITICS FEAR - WE'LL REAP WHAT WE SOW. GLOBE AND ...

The New York Times / December 4, 2000 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO - A class-action lawsuit accuses the developer of StarLink, a variety of bioengineered corn that accidentally entered the food supply, ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao took centre stage Thursday ahead of an Asia Pacific summit with trade and climate change high on the agenda of his talks with the leaders of Australia and the United States ...

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 ...

An NDP government would fight to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement to enhance protection for Canadian jobs, NDP leader Jack Layton said yesterday in Hamilton, Ont. "We want a new NAFTA.