Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
Loyolo de Palacio, a European Commission vice-president, launched a scathing attack on its flagship plans to overhaul the European Union's fisheries policy just hours before they were due to be
Radical plans to slash the size of the European fishing fleet and revamp the way precious fish stocks are managed will be adopted today by the European Commission, despite the political furore
With its new, grotesque farm subsidies, the US has let the European Union off the hook. Trade liberalization was supposed to be one of the disciplines that would push the EU to reform its absurd
South Africa, the host nations of the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, is pushing for trade and development issues to top the agenda when world leaders meet in Johannesburg in
The Zimbabwean government has blocked emergency humanitarian assistance from the US to alleviate severe hunger among its people, on the grounds that the relief food was genetically modified.
The climatic phenomenon El Nino could provoke severe flooding in Nicaragua during the wet season, the United Nations World Food Programme warned yesterday. Torrential rain along the Pacific coast
Bristol-Mayers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, was sued by 29 US states who allege it illegally blocked cheaper versions of its breast cancer drug from coming to market.
The US will push in global trade talks for complete elimination of farm export subsidies over five years, Washington's top agricultural trade negotiator said. The move is certain to add to
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria warned that state subsidies to farmers in the developed world were undermining food security in Africa. Southern Africa is suffering from severe food shortages.
An influential European Parliament committee voted to toughen proposed rules on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. The vote marks the crucial first stage through the European union's
