There is a need for coordinated effort by all engaged in medical plant use to generate new policies, mechanisms and resource flows to preserve the biodiversity used in caring for the health of the ...

In its decision IV/9, paragraph l (b), the Conference of the Parties requested the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group to provide it with advice relating to the implementation of Article 8 ...

President Donald Trump launched a tariff fight with major U.S. trading partners today by implementing 25% blanket tariffs on ...

Key issues and U.S. goals for the Millennium Round.

"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 ...

A discussion of the impacts of NAFTA on the public.

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

The U.S. antidumping law, according to its supporters, ensures "fair trade" by offsetting market distortions caused by foreign governments. Specifically, it allegedly targets "unfair" pricing ...

From the economic point of view, globalization is the increasing intensification and interconnectivity of flows of goods, services, capital and people between countries and regions in all parts of the ...

This letter provides an explanatation and history of the precautionary principle of environmental law.

Industrialized agricultural systems are energy-intensive, highly polluting and a major driver of the global climate crisis. Livestock in factory farms pump enormous quantities of potent greenhouse gas ...

A four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them. A concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO – better known as a factory farm – is a ...