Civil society groups in the U.S., Mexico and Canada criticized a decision today announced by a dispute panel set up under the ...

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...

Is it a dictatorial tool of the rich and powerful? Does it destroy jobs? Does it ignore the concerns of health, the environment and development? Emphatically no. Criticisms of the WTO are often based ...

"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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kraft Foods recalled on Friday all taco shells that it sells in supermarkets under the Taco Bell brand after tests confirmed they were made with genetically engineered corn that isn ...

This paper uses open sources to examine any topic with the potential to cause threats to public or national security.

In this article, we argue that global public policy networks are one promising answer to the growing organizational vacuum at the global level.

KAW factsheet. What we feed to the animals we eat can have dramatic health consequences for humans, as the recent reports of Mad Cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE) in U.S. beef ...

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 ...

An Interview with Peter M. Rosset, Ph.D. is executive director of the Oakland, California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy -- better known as Food First -- a nonprofit "people's" think ...

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 ...