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Kenya analyzes Kenya's livestock sector and highlights increasing pressure from U.S. trade flows and Big Ag interests.
As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate ...
This week, IATP is in Nairobi hosting a two-day workshop (August 5-6) for the East Africa region on the Agreement on ...
Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Strengthening world demand will do little this year to lift U.S. corn and soybean prices, which are projected at the lowest average farm-gate price in a quarter ...
ADM, USDA & U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: NEW EVIDENCE BEING SUBMITTED TO JUDGE CHARGING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND COVERUP New evidence, including documents and audiotape that implicates the ...
New York Times / March 3, 1999 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago ...
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 ...
Cargill Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its North Star Steel unit, including its St. Paul steel mill that employs 430 workers, to Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. of Canada in a deal valued at ...
HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...
MUNICH -- A global coalition of environmental groups is, accroding to this story, celebrating a major victory in their fight against what they call 'biopiracy'. Last week, the European Patent Office ...
There is a lot of talk in Washington about the stalemate on the Senate Agriculture Committee and the chances that the Senate could just take the House farm bill directly to the Senate floor for debate ...