The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

Some years back, Oman made an unusual request to India. The oil-rich Middle-East country was looking for four pure-bred animals of the cattle breed - Tharparkar -- found only in the dry and arid ...

This note is intended to assist in the preparation of offers, requests and national schedules of specific commitments. Its objective is to explain, in a concise manner, how specific commitments should ...

Many chefs understand the benefits of buying directly from a local farmer. Local farmers are can provide a fresh tasting, high quality product with a longer shelf life. A chef that develops an ongoing ...

The Sustainable Woods Cooperative (Spring Green, Wisconsin) has many activities already planned for this year - including a workshop about controlling invasive plants, a spring wildflower hike, a ...

Deep in the forest, miles from anything resembling a town, even logging roads and rutted four-wheeler paths dissolve. That's when J.P. Anderson gears down his battered Suzuki Samurai, crashing up the ...

Giant sequoia trees are tough, long-lived organisms. Their survival strategy, perfected over millions of years, is to live for dozens of centuries. Most everyone knows this, but much of what the trees ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

Asia Pulse | February 19, 2003 The success of the Ayala-led Manila Water Company in the Philippines in water distribution covering the East Zone half of Metropolitan Manila has shown that private ...

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 ...

Archer Daniels Midland was named the 30th-worst company in the nation in 2002 when it came to releasing cancer-causing pollutants into the air, according to a national environmental group. The company ...