Food production, farmers, rural society, and agroecological practices.
Nestled among the trendy restaurants and cafés on the bustling Phoenix Hui retail street along Beijing’s Eastern Third Ring Road is a greengrocer named “Jishi”. If you’ve ever walked past it, you might have been drawn in by its unpretentious shop window and displays. In this episode, we take you…
Revitalising local industries is the top priority of rural revitalisation and the starting point for practical work. Rural areas without industries struggle to attract people, let alone retain talent; pathways for increasing farmers’ income remain narrow, and cultural activities are hard to organise. As localities promote industrial revitalisation, they must…
Effective from 11 May this year, a revised national food safety standard officially came into force. The maximum residue limit for procymidone in chives has been raised from 0.2 mg/kg to 5 mg/kg – a twenty-fourfold relaxation. Although prochloraz is classified as a low-toxicity pesticide, long-term ingestion may still pose…
I. Loess Plateau Cuisine That Shaped My Childhood Born in the 1980s, I grew up in the mountainous folds of the Loess Plateau. I have always loved the hills, the vast plateau, and the wild freedom of roaming through slopes awash with wildflowers. My hometown lies where the borders of…
I’m Xiaomi. In December 2021, aged 26, I resigned from a civil service training company. Unsure of what kind of work I wanted to do next, I returned home to prepare for the Chinese New Year. Over the holiday period, I began to reflect on my future direction, realising that…
In this episode, the host of Food Talk travels to Tongxiang in Zhejiang province, following Yu Jiangang—a young returnee—as he visits the village where he was born, grew up, and has now settled back into. Together they explore the village’s final acre of Hangzhou white chrysanthemums, uncovering the biodiversity and…
Since 6 April, Damao Banner in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been hit by almost daily sandstorms. The worst hit was on the 10th, when a storm persisted for nearly five hours, obscuring the sun with blowing sand and leaving the interior of houses in gloom. “We had…
The 10th Annual Conference of the Farmers’ Seed Network took place on 8–9 April 2023 at the Institute of Organic Cycling, China Agricultural University (Suzhou). Acting as a co-organiser, Foodthink was present on site and played a central role in shaping and moderating the conference programme. Four community partners supported…
Twenty hours later, my feet finally touched down, sinking into the deep snow of Lapland, northern Sweden. It was seven in the morning, and the skies above Jokkmokk had yet to fully brighten, yet the glare reflecting off the surrounding white expanse was already sufficient to make out the silhouettes…
In early 2023, Foodthink opened applications for the second cohort of its “Eco-Agriculture Internship Programme”. Our aim is to connect young people aspiring to work in eco-agriculture with well-established eco-farms. This initiative equips newcomers with practical farming knowledge and techniques, ensures that the hard-won expertise of seasoned growers is documented…
