Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet ...

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand in the North and the ...

The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers ...

The chemical/biotechnology company Monsanto knew for years that the PCBs it was producing were harmful to people and the environment. This article describes how the company tried to cover up the harm ...

Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and ...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

Is it a dictatorial tool of the rich and powerful? Does it destroy jobs? Does it ignore the concerns of health, the environment and development? Emphatically no. Criticisms of the WTO are often based ...

IATP advocates for a fair and just transition toward more climate-resilient, agroecological systems for farmers and rural communities. Industrialized agricultural systems are energy-intensive, highly ...

Mexico is facing a growing mountain of hazardous waste, despite an environmental accord with the US and a continental trade deal that were supposed to discourage further environmental degradation. The ...

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the ...