The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

"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 ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The government added Belgian butter to its list of banned foods today, denying residents yet another key ingredient in their increasingly meager diet because of the dioxin ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23 (Reuters) - Farmland Industries said on Thursday it plans to sell its Dubuque, Iowa, pork processing plant to Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork producer. The all ...

New York (Sept. 18, 2003) - Monsanto's evolution to a company driven by its seeds and traits business is continuing to make measurable progress as the company moves forward on its strategic priorities ...

Geneticists are on the verge of revolutionizing agriculture and medicine in much the same way computers have transformed business. Labs around the world are working on crops that could feed a growing ...

While the Industrial Revolution changed the foundations of the United States' economy, the dependence on fossil fuels to spur it along created the need a century later for what some have dubbed a "bio ...

MONSANTO AND OTHER GENE GIANTS ARE TRYING TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE WORLD AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, INCLUDING P.E.I.'S, CITY MEETING TOLD. Tony Clarke, vice-chair of the Council of Canadians, was cited as ...

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--Caltech president David Baltimore this week voiced one of the most ringing condemnations by a prominent scientist of human gene therapy, suggesting that it was premature to be ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, ...