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If you want to sell and buy greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction credits, stakeholders in the carbon trading system must ...
OBSERVER (London) / Sunday June 25, 2000 / by Anthony Browne, environment correspondent The battle over who controls the world's food supplies has escalated dramatically with the Indian government ...
Central to the survival of small and mid-scale farmers is their right to save, use, exchange and sell their own seeds — that ...
Following two years of simmering controversy, the U.S. Senate last month voted to approve an international treaty opening up trade relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, Costa ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...
OTC (COMTEX Newswire) / Sat, Dec 23, 2000 GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- World Health Organization medical experts said Friday the global agency is concerned the mad cow disease and its fatal ...
The Hindu Businessline / August 13, 1998 The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation ...