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

Some governments may be sowing the seeds of their own defeat by blocking citizen input in the negotiation of new agreements to expand trade and investment.

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 ...

Giant sequoia trees are tough, long-lived organisms. Their survival strategy, perfected over millions of years, is to live for dozens of centuries. Most everyone knows this, but much of what the trees ...

Forestland ownership patterns can have a significant impact on the long-term continuance of large tracts of forestland as diverse natural forests. In recent years, there has been something of a ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...

Since that time, ardent fans have struggled to pull the chestnut back from the brink. Most of their efforts have relied on old-fashioned breeding techniques - investing the tree with blight-resistance ...

A Minneapolis mom recently learned that ordinary, household items are contaminating her family. "Everyday household things could be doing our kids harm and we don't even really understand what they ...

With 96 percent of the world's population living outside of the United States, Governor Bush recognizes that the future prosperity of America's farmers depends on expanding markets overseas. He is ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

Government officials have informed Friends of the Earth that they will advise Ministers in a meeting tomorrow not to block the commercial licensing of genetically modified (GM) seeds. The meeting is ...