Climate Change

Trade, Ag, and Climate Change

This assessment exposes the ways that current agricultural trade policies contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions by substantially increasing the energy intensity of food production, processing, packaging and distribution systems.

Trade, Agriculture and Climate Change

As the world's nations consider strategies to tackle climate change, little attention has been given to the intersection of energy intensive industrial agriculture and global distribution systems combined with trade agreements.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

Growing water uses in the basin, combined with climate change, population growth, land use and other changes, will lead to a combination of decreasing water availability and placing an ever increasing value on fresh water. This report outlines a research agenda for agriculture, trade and water quantity management in the Great Lakes-St.

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The Impact of Extra Bt Corn Seed Costs on Farmer Earnings and Corporate Finances

When Does It Pay To Plant Bt Corn?

Agriculture at the Heart of Climate Change Solution

Central to any successful effort will be a re-consideration of how we produce food from the farm to the fork.

Addressing Climate Change and Providing New Opportunities for Farmers

Climate change mitigation can result in many benefits including greater valuation for environmental services provided by agriculture and regeneration of rural communities. This report takes a look at the possibilities for farmers and presents policy recommendations to make this a reality.

Agriculture and Our Atmosphere

The soil has been a source of agricultural carbon dioxide emissions over the past century and more so now because of industrial farming methods. This article is a discussion of solutions and why properly managed soil carbon provides many agricultural and environmental benefits. This article was published in the February/March 2000 Newsletter of the Wedge Community Co-op.

Rendering Rio Moot: Trade Policy at the Earth Summit

  The 1992 United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, was the first of the large international conferences focused on the global environment.