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The United States took the first bold step in a week of crunch trade talks Tuesday, slicing $1.4 billion (€880 million) from any previous offer to limit contentious, trade-distorting subsidies to American farmers.
The European Union said Monday it would be willing to slash farm tariffs by 60 percent as part of a new global trade pact, the deepest cut it has ever offered.
Congress passed a $300 billion farm bill over President Bush's veto for a second time Wednesday, a step made necessary by a clerical error when the original bill passed.
It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism. But is it justified? Principal Voices has spoken to three people -- an economist, a scientist and an environmental campaigner -- at the heart of the biofuels debate. Here, they have their say on biofuels. Have yours at bottom of the page.
The merits of increasing biofuel production in the middle of a crisis over skyrocketing food prices is being hotly debated at a United Nations summit, but the top U.S. delegate says consensus on the issue is possible.
Countries and donors must spend as much as $20 billion a year if the world is to end the food crisis, the head of the United Nations said Wednesday.
Leaders gathered at a summit on the world's food crisis quickly laid out their disagreements on a key issue: how much the rush for environmentally friendly biofuels is contributing to soaring prices that are causing hunger and unrest worldwide.
Two controversial world leaders known for their anti-western rhetoric took advantage of a U.N. summit to point the finger of blame for the current food crisis at western nations.
The world's poorest countries could pay 40 percent more for food this year than they did last year because of rising prices, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.
Congress enacted a $300 billion farm bill Thursday over President Bush's objections, but questions remain about whether a clerical error will keep the bill from going into effect.
The United States took the first bold step in a week of crunch trade talks Tuesday, slicing $1.4 billion (€880 million) from any previous offer to limit contentious, trade-distorting subsidies to American farmers.
The European Union said Monday it would be willing to slash farm tariffs by 60 percent as part of a new global trade pact, the deepest cut it has ever offered.
Congress passed a $300 billion farm bill over President Bush's veto for a second time Wednesday, a step made necessary by a clerical error when the original bill passed.
It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism. But is it justified? Principal Voices has spoken to three people -- an economist, a scientist and an environmental campaigner -- at the heart of the biofuels debate. Here, they have their say on biofuels. Have yours at bottom of the page.
The merits of increasing biofuel production in the middle of a crisis over skyrocketing food prices is being hotly debated at a United Nations summit, but the top U.S. delegate says consensus on the issue is possible.
Countries and donors must spend as much as $20 billion a year if the world is to end the food crisis, the head of the United Nations said Wednesday.
Leaders gathered at a summit on the world's food crisis quickly laid out their disagreements on a key issue: how much the rush for environmentally friendly biofuels is contributing to soaring prices that are causing hunger and unrest worldwide.
Two controversial world leaders known for their anti-western rhetoric took advantage of a U.N. summit to point the finger of blame for the current food crisis at western nations.
The world's poorest countries could pay 40 percent more for food this year than they did last year because of rising prices, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.
Congress enacted a $300 billion farm bill Thursday over President Bush's objections, but questions remain about whether a clerical error will keep the bill from going into effect.
The EU has unveiled a plan for the reform of its Common Agricultural Policy, and the formidable farming lobby isn't best pleased
Farmer U Han Nyunt stands on some of the most fertile land in the world -- and fears that he will starve to death.
On a ranch nestled in the high plains of northeastern Colorado, thousands of cattle are being fattened up and prepared for slaughter.
It appears the global food crisis can be averted. The solution? The humble potato.
The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting.
Two United Nations contract workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were kidnapped Tuesday in southern Somalia, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Farmers are expected to plant less corn this year, which could mean higher continuing higher costs for consumers at the grocery store
Eating ethically is no easy task these days. One problem is deciding which ethic is more important. Keeping third-world farmers in fair trade jobs by purchasing their produce? Or assuaging your concerns over the environmental impact of getting that produce to your kitchen by shopping locally instead?
The Humane Society of the United States is partly responsible for the magnitude of the largest beef recall in the nation's history, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Thursday.
The FDA has approved the sale of cloned meat and milk products in the US, but those items won't be specially labeled. Would you want to know how your ribeye was reproduced?
The Humane Society of the United States released a video Wednesday it says shows mistreatment of "downed" cows at a California slaughterhouse -- and one lawmaker said it raises questions about the safety of the nation's food supply.
Sales are booming this year at FAO Schwarz, despite the fact that most of its toys are made in China, a country that's come under scrutiny for product safety.
Analysis: Senate Republicans have blocked a bad bill for the wrong reasons. But don't expect it to die
A new U.N. report says the soaring price of oil may be leading to food shortages and hunger in the developing world
Something unusual is going on in the pasta section of the largest supermarket in Parma, Italy, these days. All the pasta is still there, stacked on both sides of a tennis-court-length aisle in the center of the store. The dizzying choice, too, is the same as in many Italian supermarkets: dozens of shapes, sizes, and colors, ranging from banal penne and rigatoni to lumachine, shaped like tiny snail shells.
The virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm
President Bush announced Thursday that Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will resign his post. Johanns is expected to seek an open seat in the U.S. Senate from his home state of Nebraska.
Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment.
British authorities announced Friday that a foot and mouth outbreak is not likely to spread outside a controlled zone in southern England where two cases of the highly-transmissible virus have been confirmed.
International bans were slapped on British farming exports Monday as the country scrambled to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, halting work at a vaccine lab suspected to be the source of the infection.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cutting short his holiday retreat to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, said on Saturday the government would act decisively and promptly to contain, eradicate and identify the source of the disease.
Foot and mouth disease has been found in cattle on a farm near Guildford in Surrey, England, British government officials said Friday, prompting Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call a meeting of the United Kingdom's crisis panel.
Through a series of creative financing proposals that includes guaranteed loans, grants and aggressive research, the 2007 Farm Bill now before Congress provides seed money for the growth of alternative fuel production in the United States.
John Peterson is the star, and chief spokesman, for a documentary that highlights the success of community-supported agriculture
This year's legislation for the nation's $300 billion farm industry takes important steps to help local farmers but much more remains to be done, a panel of experts agreed Tuesday.
The Department of Agriculture said Friday it will offer a year of free credit monitoring to individuals whose personal information was publicly available on a government Web site.
The Canadian government said Sunday that it has confirmed a case of mad-cow disease in a cow in British Columbia.
Japan halted the import of U.S. beef Friday after animal spines were found in three boxes of frozen beef at Tokyo International Airport and asked U.S. officials to explain what happened.
The bird flu virus could become endemic in Turkey and poses a serious risk to neighboring countries, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says.
On Sept. 27, hundreds of America's top cotton growers gathered in the convention center in Visalia, Calif., in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. They'd come for the annual meeting of Calcot, one...
Global moves to combat the threat of avian flu are being stepped up, with China, the United States, Canada, Japan and North Korea all taking action to help stop the disease spreading.
For kids lucky enough to be on the right side of the wealth gap, there's no reason to settle for a Barbie this holiday season.
GENEVA -(Dow Jones)- Talks among trade ministers from the world's biggest commercial powers to open global markets ended in acrimony Tuesday night.
Hurricane Katrina could cost the nation's farm sector up to $2 billion, affecting Midwest farmers who are unable to ship their goods by barge down the Mississippi River, according to a published report.
After months of weak response, donations to assist famine-stricken Niger have increased to $13 million in the past two weeks -- still far short of what is needed, U.N. officials said.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken on the twin challenge of unraveling the crises over Europe's constitution and its stalled budget negotiations as Britain assumed the rotating EU presidency Friday.
The soil of the Northwest's Palouse region is among the richest in the country. Much of it is sunk in and around outcroppings of Ice Age silt dunes; farmers and ranchers here sometimes work 50-degr...
There was fanfare and fans. And the way the lines looked, you'd think something was being given out for free. But you'll be hard pressed to find anything free, or cheap for that matter, at FAO Schwarz.
For kids whose parents are loaded, baseball mitts or big wheel cars are just so gross.
Delaware's agriculture secretary says it is "way premature" for South Korea to ban U.S. poultry products after a strain of bird flu not known to affect humans was found on a farm in the state.
Chinese agricultural officials have confirmed that the H5N1 strain of bird flu -- the more deadly variety -- has spread to Anhui Province in Eastern China.
United Nations health experts have issued stern warnings about bird flu as the human death toll in Asia rises to 18.
China's vice agricultural minister has admitted there are weaknesses in the country's prevention policy on bird flu with widespread outbreaks across the nation.
Health experts are meeting in Rome for an emergency bird flu summit as deaths from the disease mount in Asia and fears rise the illness may have reached Europe.
Health experts are gathering for an emergency meeting in Rome as deaths from the disease mount in Asia and fears rise the illness may have reached Europe.
World health experts have called for a SARS-like response to a bird flu pandemic as two more Asian nations reported outbreaks of the disease.
DNA tests verify "with a high degree of certainty" that the cow in Washington state found to have mad cow disease originated from a dairy farm in Alberta, Canada, USDA chief veterinarian Ron DeHaven said Tuesday.
U.S. officials this week will kill about 450 bull calves, including the offspring of a dairy cow that tested positive for mad cow disease last month, the Agriculture Department said Monday.
LIKE NANCY DONLEY, 41, YOU MAY THINK THAT TOUGH consumer-protection laws and vigilant regulatory agencies are watching out for you. "I thought that we were the No. 1 country in the world and everyt...
Lost in the budget brawl over Medicare comes news that farm subsidies, America's oldest, most protected welfare program, might finally be phased out. Or not.
THE ENDURING global partnership between farmers and politicians is starting to come unstuck. The leading industrial powers, after years of bickering, now look ready to forge an agreement on rolling...
Listen to what Americans are calling their elected representatives: wimps, scoundrels, scalawags, and worse -- epithets that are starting to echo the uninhibited political rhetoric of earlier times...
DWAYNE ANDREAS sometimes gets by with a little help from his friends. Three years ago the chairman and chief executive of Archer Daniels Midland Co. was arranging a conference of senior business an...
Yep, it's for real all right. Any lingering skepticism about the severity of the drought was dispelled when the Department of Agriculture released its crop forecasts in mid-August. Consumers are al...
HOW ABOUT a few tunes on behalf of city dudes, Willie Nelson? The gritty, bighearted country-and-western singer has sponsored Farm Aid concerts around the country and has raised more than $8 millio...
ANOTHER YEAR of plenty is withering prospects for U.S. farmers. Their income, despite record government payments, will stay low next year. At the same time, retail food prices will pick up a bit. T...
While a drought has scorched crops, killed livestock, and cost farmers in the Southeast $1 billion, growers in the Midwest are reaping bumper crops. From the taxpayers' point of view, the bountiful...
NEARLY 100,000 U.S. farmers, many of them among the most efficient in the world, are about to go broke. Many are in their 30s and 40s, men who just a few years ago saw rich, prosperous lives ahead....
TWO POWERFUL LOBBIES, each accustomed to getting its way in Washington, are locked in fierce combat on Capitol Hill. Farmers want Uncle Sam to provide federal loans and other subsidies to help them...
After a week of furrowed brows, leaks to the press, and symbolic gestures to major-domos of Congress, President Reagan unveiled a list of $42 billion in budget cuts that were pretty much what Budge...
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