I grew up wandering through wet markets. Day to day, I am just an office worker in a cubicle, but come the New Year, I transform into the “deputy” of our family’s grocery stall. What is a wet market, exactly? For ordinary people living by the natural rhythm…
Heading to the town market, I found two snack stalls within three paces. One stall was run by a local elderly woman. She has a permanent spot in the market, sitting on a low stool by a pot of hot oil, frying and selling dengzhangao (traditional Fujian fried…
This year marks the UN-designated International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. To raise awareness of rangelands and pastoralists, the investigative documentary *Whose Table, Whose Pasture?*, supported by the Foodthink Lianhe Creation Programme, will be screened in Nanjing on the afternoon of 26 May. Following the screening, Tianle from Foodthink will…
Registration for the Jiangxi session of the Local Ecological Agriculture Co-learning and Co-building Camp closes on 25 May 2026. With only a few places remaining, we encourage early registration. As a non-profit platform advocating sustainable food and farming systems, Foodthink published an open call in early 2024:…
Like many who follow international rural politics, I had long heard of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). Keywords such as landless peasants, land occupation, struggle, and land reform are so strongly associated with the group that I instinctively equated it with a movement “rooted in rural settlements and sustained…
20 May marks World Bee Day. Silkworms and bees are the only two insects domesticated by humans, yet when drones fly overhead, their dead bodies litter the fields. Having covered silkworms, we now turn our attention back to bees, an essential pollinator. China’s agriculture depends on pollinators…
Foodthink says In March this year, pesticide spraying in oilseed rape fields caused severe losses for beekeepers, briefly thrusting bee mortality into the public eye. Yet beyond the visible “deaths” lies a more insidious disappearance: rather than perishing in large numbers inside their hives, bees are abandoning their colonies…
This March, news of pollinating bees being “accidentally harmed” by drones in rapeseed fields caught the public eye. Yet beyond the spotlight, another insect that has coexisted with human civilisation for millennia—the domestic silkworm—is facing a far more insidious and severe survival crisis. “Once the drones take…
Today, fresh-food e-commerce platforms such as Hema (Alibaba), Xiaoxiang Market (Meituan), 7Fresh (JD.com) and Pupu are growing increasingly popular. These platforms mean that with just a few taps on your smartphone from the comfort of your home, you can have a wide range of daily essentials delivered within 30…
