This week, IATP is in Nairobi hosting a two-day workshop (August 5-6) for the East Africa region on the Agreement on ...

MINNEAPOLIS—In response to the Trump administration’s tariff announcement last week, and ahead of the delayed start date on ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

From the New York Times, By Carl Zimmer As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for.

In what should be the first of many such moves, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will bar poultry farmers from using a type of antibiotic that's also important in human medicine. The problem is ...

A few years ago, my botanist friends Carol and Steve Mortensen and I took a boat trip out to Bear Island in Leech Lake to look for one of Minnesota's nearly two-dozen rare ferns and fern allies ...

More progress needed to connect farmers with federal conservation programs. There has been some positive development for conservation agriculture policy in the U.S. since 2021, but USDA still rejects ...

Fearing that the animal drug Baytril -- used to fight infections in chickens -- could pose health risks to humans, the Food and Drug Administration decided to ban its use in poultry.

Agricultural “dumping” – the practice of exporting commodities at prices below the cost of production -- can be devastating for farmers in importing countries, especially in low-income countries with ...

JBS is the largest meat company in the world. While headquartered in Brazil, it has over 450 facilities and offices in more than 20 countries.

Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

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 ...