Farmers’ markets, solidarity economies, community-supported agriculture, local food systems, and PGS.
In this episode of Food Talk, our hosts welcome back an old friend: Shu Meng, PhD in Sociology from Cornell University. Drawing on her widely read article, “The Bigger the Fridge, the Worse the Food? The Food System in Middle-Class American Fridges”, we delve into a pressing question: why does…
Earlier this year, four years after moving to the Netherlands, my partner and I finally rented a hectare of land in Utrecht province, and I began working on my farm. Before I decided to set up a farm, I completed placements at several small organic farms in the Netherlands. During…
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…
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 Europe and Japan, there is a long tradition of educating children through nature and agriculture. Every year, primary school pupils are taken by their schools into the fields to learn how to sow seeds, tend crops, and prepare food. From the classroom to the great outdoors, and from spring…
When we talk about consumer rights, what exactly are we talking about? International consumer movements typically approach consumer rights from four key perspectives: the right to safety, the right to information, the right to choose, and the right to be heard. Today, Foodthink will take food consumption—something we all rely…
I. Tang and Wen make their home in a valley threaded by a stream. The watercourse is modest, running at about half a metre deep, but it flows all year round and is even marked on maps. Heading south, it merges with several other waterways before feeding into the Ohio…
Author’s Note My partner, Mr Panghu, and I live in a small town in the Great Lakes region of the American Midwest. The local farmers’ market was founded nearly thirty years ago, and we have witnessed over a decade of its history. This series of short pieces aims to document…
Dear readers, Happy New Year! Over the past five years, exploring food and agriculture at varying levels of depth, Foodthink has published 486 original articles. Bridging the urban–rural divide and crossing disciplinary boundaries, our content covers nearly 20 themes, including food and agricultural policy, rural development, organic farming, cooperative economics,…
