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A multitude of alternatives to industrial agriculture are emerging, and small-scale farmers have been the pioneers of one such alternative, known as agroecology. As an integrative interdisciplinary science, agroecology offers techniques for producing healthy food and restoring ecosystems.
The top five mega-corporations responsible for factory-farmed meat and dairy are responsible for emitting more combined greenhouse gases (GHGs) than Exxon, or Shell, or BP. That is according to findings just released in a joint study undertaken by IATP and GRAIN.
Negotiations over the potential costs of the farm bill continue with the House of Representatives sending a second proposal to senators over the weekend that would boost spending on the bill potentially up to $10 billion above the budget baseline over the next decade.
Dhaka's protest remains unheeded
New Delhi has deprived Dhaka of its share of the Ganges water as stipulated in the Gangers Water Sharing Treaty 1996 and has not heeded the complaints Dhaka earlier registered with Indian authorities.
Preparatory Committee for the High-level International Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development, First session 31 May - 2 June 2000, Agenda item 2.
When I talked with Russ Feingold last week about what the Democratic candidates for president should do to win Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, he suggested that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should go to the senator's hometown of Janesville and talk about trade.
Obama got the hint.
When I talked with Russ Feingold last week about what the Democratic candidates for president should do to win Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, he suggested that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should go to the senator's hometown of Janesville and talk about trade.
Obama got the hint.
When I talked with Russ Feingold last week about what the Democratic candidates for president should do to win Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, he suggested that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should go to the senator's hometown of Janesville and talk about trade.
Obama got the hint.
One of the most often asked questions of Dr. Bobby Coats is, "When will the new farm bill be completed?"
Coats, a professor/economist with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, said that, while no one knows, spring is a good bet.
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- More than 100 angry Central Floridians faced off with a California company that wants to pump millions of gallons of water from the aquifer in Lake County.
Niagara Bottling Company representatives and Lake County residents met in Paisley Thursday night to share information and opinions. The company wants to build a bottling plant in Lake County.
The SPP was founded in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of
Canada, the US, and Mexico with the backing of powerful lobby groups
including US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Canadian Council of Chief
Executives (CCCE), and Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. Robert
Pastor, co-chairman of the CFR, wrote an influential book in 2001 "Toward
Recently in the news, at least 10 reputable medical studies have reported that antibiotic overuse in concentrated animal factory farms helps breed MRSA, the dreaded antibiotic-resistant superbug that causes deadly staph infections.
In my nationally syndicated newspaper column last week entitled "The Democrats' Class War," I outlined some of the difficult terrain Barack Obama has in trying to both court working-class voters and avoid the media's racist characterization of power-challenging African-American leaders as race-centric radicals.
Anyone who has ever tried to book a room near Yellowstone National Park in August knows that natural places can get very crowded. But biologist Oliver Pergams says those crowds can hide an important trend: Every year, a smaller percentage of Americans are fishing, camping or engaging in other nature-based activities.
Ever wonder if you could hack it as a logger?
Tune in to "Ax Men," a 13-part History Channel series that follows four Northwest Oregon logging crews through a season on the job. The series makes its debut at 10 p.m. March 9.
Fifty years ago, what Alabama landowners called a forest often was land lined with rows of identical pines, planted for profit and clear-cut every three decades.