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Kangli, a Yunnan Yi woman, put herself through school on matsutake and rooted in Chuxiong; Jinpeng returned to the Greater Khingan forest, supporting his family by mountain foraging for over a decade. They discuss wild mountain produce pricing, depopulation of mountain villages, and the real labour under climate change.
From 2008, Cao Xiaohong built a group-buying circle for mums in a small Hunan town via Wotu Workshop; Xiao Yunsheng has sold veg at the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market for over a decade. They reflect on building producer–consumer trust, and whether it can still withstand livestreaming and drop-shipping.
Muyunpo was founded in 2017 by the non-profit Shuguang in Xiaojin County, Sichuan’s Jiarong Tibetan region. Villagers’ groups set their own foraging and cultivation standards, with sales surpluses returned to the community at year-end—replacing the traditional purchasing system of price-suppressing traders and farmers at the market’s mercy.
Meituan has funded environmental organisations dedicated to monitoring food-delivery plastic pollution, yet their critical voices have gradually faded. Two veteran environmental advocates compare this to the 2004 Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) case, noting that the balance of power between businesses and public-interest organisations has quietly reversed.
Rooted in Heshun, Shanxi, for a decade, Maomeng protects the North China leopard’s habitat through ecological agriculture without chemical fertilisers or pesticides. Project lead Hannah tells how a single cornfield connects leopard populations, villagers and the urban public.
Meituan, a major generator of food-delivery plastic waste, has begun funding environmental organisations working on plastic reduction. Spanning fundraising ethics to corporate PR tactics, Shan Shui Conservation Center co-founder Sun Shan and freelance environmental writer Ma Tianjie ask whether public-interest organisations can hold their independence against polluter funding.
Foodthink Founding Editor Chang Tianle and Sijia, host of 100 Ways of Living, chat about ecological agriculture, supporting local farmers, and how office workers can still cook proper meals without ordering a takeaway.
Three farming friends growing vegetables in Shunyi, Beijing, and Chuxiong, Yunnan have weathered downpours battering trees and droughts cracking reservoirs — their experiences trace the link between rising vegetable prices and climate change.
“Food Talk” won the public welfare and environmental protection Annual Podcast Award at the CPA Chinese Podcast Culture Festival. Host Xiaojing ran into “Tuanli Jiegou” host Yu Jiangang there – the two crossed over, exploring the “public welfare” label in listeners’ eyes, why they started podcasting, and unexpected rewards.
Nearly twenty years into rural work, Lao Liu (Huang Guoliang) and his partner, Agricultural Technician Luo Lishuang, have nurtured fellow ecological farmers in Guangxi. He discusses the gap between textbook science and rural experience — and asks whether new-generation farmers’ minds have followed their bodies back to the village.
