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As the European Union (EU) looks for ways to cut its agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and manage its energy transition, biogas and with it biomethane has gained renewed traction.
February 28, 2000 / By SCOTT KILMAN, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow ...
THE HINDU / August 21, 1998 / Pg. 10, Col. D. / By Chennai "Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and ...
Intended to clarify the content of the Right to Adequate Food and the responsibilities of all actors involved. A guide for conduct of international community, states, others to focus policy and ...
Mineral scarcity poses global risk for agriculture and public health Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and ...
An NDP government would fight to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement to enhance protection for Canadian jobs, NDP leader Jack Layton said yesterday in Hamilton, Ont. "We want a new NAFTA.
ASSOCIATED PRESS EDGERTON, WIS. - Opponents of large-scale dairy farms have won a fight to keep a proposed $10 million, 2,850-cow dairy farm out of Edgerton. "It has been an endless battle" to come up ...
Crops and Robbers: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Staple Food Crops ...
IN THE WORLD OF MOLECULAR FARMING, PLANTS ARE LIVING FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE CHEAP DRUGS, PLASTICS, EVEN HUMAN BLOOD PROTEINS. RESEARCHERS HOPE - AND CRITICS FEAR - WE'LL REAP WHAT WE SOW. Ste-Foy, Que ...
None of this is new. Three decades ago, multinationals were already widely denounced as big, irresponsible, monopolistic monsters. But they then went through a period of being sneered at as ...
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 ...