Despite the profound impact climate change is already having on farmers and food production, governments have been slow to ...

In 2024, the planet’s average temperature climbed to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius  above pre-industrial levels for the first ...

Tariffs have been in the news a lot lately. This FAQ explains what tariffs are and how they can be used as a tool in trade ...

A landmark trial in Canada will set a precedent for Monsanto's ability to protect its patents on genetically modified crops, says Scott Morrison. Monsanto, the US life sciences group, has been having ...

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is about policy. Our work centers on how public institutions and policies can ...

In California, the state with the largest agricultural economy in the country, farm work is conducted by a workforce of about 600,000 men and women. From 1991 to 1996 the California EPA's Department ...

The following letter on the GM crop trials, published in the press in Norfolk UK, is from Dr Jeremy Bartlett who has a doctorate in plant genetics from the John Innes Centre, often described as the UK ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement once again is a blow to farmers and ...

Columnist Wilson says it is not quite a David and Goliath duel, more like a David and Howard standoff. The David is Suzuki, a renowned Vancouver geneticist, TV host and critic of genetically modified ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...

When Victoria's Secret senior executive Tom Katzenmeyer saw the full page ad that eco-group ForestEthics ran in the New York Times two years ago assailing the catalogue retailer as a destroyer of ...

This paper provides an outline of the concept and reality of trade facilitation primarily from an emerging economy policy-making perspective.