Society needs to transition to more sustainable, resilient and agroecological food systems in the coming decades, so that we ...

and examples of existing group certificates in the United States. Opportunities and challenges associated with increasing the use of group certification are also discussed.

The United States was a leading force in establishing the World Trade Organization in 1995. The WTO is an international institution in which we negotiate agreements to reduce barriers to trade with ...

This note is intended to assist in the preparation of offers, requests and national schedules of specific commitments. Its objective is to explain, in a concise manner, how specific commitments should ...

This paper is on compliance and dispute settlement provisions in the WTO and MEAs. It is also provided as an input to the MEA Information Sessions.

The main objective of this paper is to review documented evidence of the impacts of climate change trends on forest productivity since the middle of the 20th century.

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the ...

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's new Director of International Programs Karen Hansen-Kuhn talks about joining IATP.

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 9, 2002 (ENS) - ProdiGene Inc., the company that allowed genetically engineered corn to contaminated about 500,000 bushels of soybeans, will pay a $250,000 fine - the first ...

Letter asking CEO of Bayer to remove on of its antibiotic products ...