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The world’s biggest chocolate producers are enjoying large profits while failing to pass on the benefits to cocoa farmers, many of whom are suffering falling incomes and worsening poverty, according to a report from the charity Oxfam. The report was published ahead of World Fair Trade Day on May 13. Falling incomes The analysis focuses…

Oxfam says world’s biggest chocolate firms are failing to deliver on promises to raise farmer incomes

This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest.  When gases from large livestock facilities overwhelm communities, the health impacts can be severe. Children at schools …

The USDA granted nearly $900,000 over a three year period to Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. The center will work with 16 west Michigan counties to build local food networks.

Thousands of Belgian and Dutch farmers are being sacrificed on the altar of climate change. They are losing their livelihoods as their governments crack down on emissions of nitrogen oxide (from manure) and the use of ammonia in fertilization.

Swedish Ambassador Annika Thunborg visited the Sunnyville Farm in Barangay Pasong Tamo, Quezon City on Friday, Feb. 10. Sunnyville Farm is a 1.2-hectare urban garden cultivated by 35 urban farmers. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte accompanied the Swedish delegation, which consisted of 16 people fr

They've come for asset managers and for the Chamber of Commerce. Now Republicans are coming for their own nonprofit organizations.

The farm bill is one of a few must-pass items Congress will confront this year, and battle lines already are being drawn over climate policy.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument on Monday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the medically important antibiotic streptomycin as a pesticide on citrus crops. The lawsuit, brought by farmworker and public-interest groups, argues that the use of streptomycin on citrus crops is unlawful under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Endangered Species Act.