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As the European Union (EU) looks for ways to cut its agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and manage its energy transition, biogas and with it biomethane has gained renewed traction.
IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...
MINNEAPOLIS —The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) joined a lawsuit filed late last night with a group of USDA grantees suing for unlawful grant termination, seeking an order for the ...
The growth in exports seen in the first half of 2003 ""was sustained by a higher output of commodities, fuels and a few manufactured goods of agricultural origin which need little processing"", ...
Reuters / April 12, 2000 CINCINNATI (Reuters) - John Morrell and Co., a wholly owned unit of top U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc., said it would complete the purchase of Farmland Industries ...
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 ...
The Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida is crisscrossed with so many illegal swamp-buggy ruts - more than 23,000 miles of them - that park officials in August began limiting off-road vehicles to ...
The WTO Ministerial Conference at Doha declared that the exclusivity afforded by patent rights could not prevent governments from taking steps to protect public health, including, most importantly, ...
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2000 Farm output expands slowly even as population growth and changing diets boost demand. Laurent Belsie ([email protected]) / Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ST.
My own delicious research shows the industry has taken giant steps. When I wrote about grass-fed beef in 2002 there were about 50 producers, and most of what they raised was not very good. Now there ...