The U.S. position in support of corporate interests is stuck in a mythical past, when massive agribusiness claimed their ...

Property rights are assured by the collective standing behind one's claim to the benefits stream generated by property. Changing technology and institutions have interacted throughout history to ...

Fresh fears over the safety of genetically modified foods surfaced faced yesterday after new research revealed that food allergies relating to soya increased by 50 percent last year. A study by Europe ...

This recently published EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process ...

In the first such case expected to proceed to trial, Monsanto has sued a Canadian farmer for growing herbicide-tolerant canola in 1997 and 1998 in violation of its patent. The company claims that ...

SYDNEY - Australian scientists announced yesterday a breakthrough in efforts to clone the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, saying they had replicated some of the animal's genes using DNA extracted from ...

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 ...

Large parts of the world's agricultural soils are deficient in minerals such as zinc. This limits food and feed production and leads to nutrient deficiency diseases in humans and livestock. In the ...

A landmark trial in Canada will set a precedent for Monsanto's ability to protect its patents on genetically modified crops, says Scott Morrison. Monsanto, the US life sciences group, has been having ...

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

Maastricht - The vast scientific advances made in recent years, particularly in the area of biotechnology, have led to new legal problems and policy questions. Nowhere this is as apparent as in the ...

The G8 Illegal Logging Dialogue has been launched in Singapore to attempt to put a stop to worldwide illegal logging. Delegates from G8 nations, plus China, India and other top timber producting ...