The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is about policy. Our work centers on how public institutions and policies can ...

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 ...

`Regulatory protection' is but one name for the tens of thousands of cost-raising, behind-the-border measures that continue to substantially inhibit trade. Most of these measures are seemingly ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

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 ...

A discussion of the impacts of NAFTA on the public.

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...

The Minnesota Green Chemistry Forum is committed to fostering a common understanding among businesses, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academia to advance green chemistry ...

Briefly discusses and gives tables of countries in the European Union and their monitoring systems for antibiotic resistance, including the bacteria which are tested, and the methods used.

Information comparing these two certification programs.

CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, about 300 miles from the company's headquarters ...

Provides the first transparent estimate of the quantities of antimicrobials used in agriculture. The report estimate the quantities of antibiotics used for purposes other than therapy in the three big ...