IATP is joining hundreds of businesses, faith communities, labor unions, schools, and nonprofits across Minnesota on Friday, ...

On New Year’s Eve, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the details for $11 billion of a $12 billion farm ...

Coming October 2 from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, a new four-part podcast series about factory farms, and the farmers and rural organizers fighting to end them: How to Fight a ...

Genetically modified corn has always been contentious in Mexico. Maize, as it is known in most of the world, is the core of the country’s diet and cuisine. The global food crop was first domesticated ...

James E. Echols, former president and chief executive officer of Cargill Cotton Co., died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital- Memphis.\r\n\r\nHe was 65.\r\n\r\nMr. Echols headed Cargill Cotton as ...

Environmental groups have won a delay in a plan to log inside a roadless area of the White Mountain National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service approved the Than Brook logging project in May. It would ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The owner of Ohio's largest egg producer says he's pulling out of the business in Ohio within five years and will start a new venture in eastern Europe. "I am burned out working ...

"For the past three years, WDM has been campaigning on the General Agreement on Trade in Services and, in that time, has consistently called for the European Union's liberalisation requests of other ...

While we work nationally and internationally, IATP is deeply rooted in our home state of Minnesota and our city of ...

The forces of globalization pose a real danger to food security in the southern African region where the bulk of the countries are under constant pressure to open up markets in line with what are now ...

Using a world agricultural multimarket model, we analyze the impact on agricultural markets of enlarging the European Union (EU) to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in 2003.