Sustainable Agriculture

Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities

Hospitals around the country are starting to follow their own advice to patients about the importance of a beneficial diet by offering fresh, healthy food at their facilities.

UNCTAD XI Ends With Message - Need For More South-South Trade & Cooperation

The UNCTAD XI meet concluded in Sao Paulo in Brazil on June 18 with an implied message that if attempts fail to further the Doha development agenda under the multilateral trade arrangement, the best way is to go for more South-South trade and cooperation under a more comprehensive global system of trade preferences (GSTP).

California Environmental Law Challenged by Foreign Investors Using NAFTA

Press Advisory WHO: Three-Member Arbitral Panel administered by ICSID (International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes) WHAT: Hearing in the case Methanex Corporation v. United States of America WHERE: Ground Floor of the MC Building of the World Bank (adjacent to the Preston Auditorium),

Wal-Mart's U.S. Expansion Has Benefited From More Than $1 Billion In Economic Development Subsidies

Washington, DC, May 24, 2004--Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, has benefited from more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from state and local governments across the United States, according to a new study by Good Jobs First, a Washington, DC-based research group (the study, SHOPPING FOR SUBSIDIES, is available online at

Farmer Perspectives on Cropping Systems Diversification in Northwestern Minnesota

Research on factors that influence management decisions by Minnesota farmers that determine the level of diversification within cropping systems.

Marketing Sustainable Agriculture - Case Studies and Analysis from Europe

Innovative marketing strategies are crucial to the success of sustainable and organic agriculture. Gaining insights from successful strategies is the purpose of the publication Marketing Sustainable Agriculture: Case Studies and Analysis from Europe.

Third Crop Opportunities in the Blue Earth River Basin

Proceedings of the conference held in Fairmont, Minnesota on February 7 and 23.

Sustainable Agriculture - Making Money, Making Sense

A literature review of ten years of research and results regarding the profitability of sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable Agriculture: Making Money, Making Sense

This issue brief reviews the current economic and agircultural research on the financial impact of sustainable farming on farmers in the United States. If profitability means the measure of return to the farmer, is sustainable farming profitable? Have specific types of sustainable agricultural systems been found to decrease the cost of production and thus raise farm income?

Shift Payments from Grain to ""Green""

This article by Dennis Keeney appeared in The Des Moines Register / April 8, 2001, Sunday 