Analysis of national and local agricultural policies, food policies, regulatory changes, and governance mechanisms.
Environmental advocates Li Jiacheng and Mao Da, drawing on the book Where Does the Garbage Go?, point out that Japan’s incineration-dominated system is not the best model: in at least 10 Chinese provinces and regions, incineration capacity has already exceeded waste collection volume.
On a hundred-acre farm beside a creek in the Ohio River valley, Xiaotang and Xiaowen grow shiitake using the sawdust cultivation method to supply about ten local restaurants, while underground, mycelium quietly intertwines tree roots, wildflowers, and everyday life.
Two of herder Dalai’s sheep refused food or water; Station Chief De made two days of calls, but the metal detector found nothing. A necropsy finally confirmed the cause: the sick ewes had swallowed wire broken from the fencing — the flock’s pregnant ewes fell ill in turn.
Once the grain corridor was disrupted, Ukrainian grain surged by rail, road and the Danube into southeastern Europe, sparking farmer protests in Poland, Bulgaria and beyond – yet Somalia and other nations most reliant on Ukrainian grain gained little. Around Odesa, farmers are forced to rebuild the entire sales chain.
