The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

This paper provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters and importers in international markets. We ...

The world's trade ministers, who will meet at a WTO ministerial in November 2001 in Doha, are wrong to think that only a new round of negotiations will save the much-maligned international trade ...

Pakistan statement on the Revised Draft Declaration for the WTO Ministerial in Doha.

This paper is an attempt by the proponents to contribute in the context of the renewed efforts for completing work on all issues and mandates in the July package.

MONSANTO AND OTHER GENE GIANTS ARE TRYING TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE WORLD AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, INCLUDING P.E.I.'S, CITY MEETING TOLD. Tony Clarke, vice-chair of the Council of Canadians, was cited as ...

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--Caltech president David Baltimore this week voiced one of the most ringing condemnations by a prominent scientist of human gene therapy, suggesting that it was premature to be ...

The future development, management, protection and use of freshwater resources has become a topic of considerable international debate over the past decade, involving a wide range of actors and ...

An effective trade policy is central to the integration of Russia in the international economic system and the growth that will generate: Tariff policy is the centerpiece of trade policy in a market ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

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 ...

Wetlands, now valued by Minnesotans -- but hardly preserved -- were once considered a scourge, here and elsewhere in the eastern United States. In part this was because wetlands impeded settlement.