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As the European Union (EU) looks for ways to cut its agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and manage its energy transition, biogas and with it biomethane has gained renewed traction.
IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...
Joining a group of organizations around the country, IATP is taking action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ...
The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers were asking for more regulation of the meat industry? They didn’t like ...
Later today, the White House nominee for Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz will appear before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Quintenz is a former CFTC ...
Amy B. Trubek / NECI Alumni Magazine / Fall 2003Amy B. Trubek / NECI Alumni Magazine / Fall 2003 Many chefs understand the benefits of buying directly from a local farmer. Local farmers are can ...
A remote Papua New Guinea forest tribe has a new "walkabout" sawmill to cut logs for export to Australia as "ecotimber" rather than admit destructive foreign logging companies. The portable mill is ...
The wood products industry is not generally recognized as having a creative, innovative approach to product development and marketing. Yet dramatic changes in wood products have occurred over the past ...
David Mercker with University of Tennessee Forestry shares some interesting information with us on forest certification: The concept of forest certification has grown as a tool to foster sustainable ...
In 1997, after British Petroleum publicly acknowledged the harmful effects of global warming, it quickly became known as the oil company with environmental virtue. While other oil corporations argued ...