The women who stayed behind in Youmi Village, a Mosuo settlement in Lijiang, are using Sickle-grain rice, an old upland rice variety from the Jino, to grow rice again on hillside slopes growing ever drier—and to keep alive the cultural memory behind rice farming.
Mercosur and the EU formally signed their free trade agreement after nearly ten thousand farmers hurled potatoes at EU headquarters in Brussels. Grain-price trauma, double environmental standards and transition costs stack up—fairly, who bears the cost of green transition? China’s low-carbon agriculture faces the same question.
Three heavy mealside-drama users range from hundred-rewatched classics to stress-relief short series, probing whether screen companionship truly eases loneliness – or leaves us swallowing the original flavour of food in a haze of digital compensation.
The Satun Province fishers’ association began by driving out illegal trawlers and eradicated local overfishing within a decade; yet the 2025 Fisheries Act amendment, approved by Parliament, will allow fine-mesh nets for night fishing, putting thirty years of community conservation to a new test.
Oyster sauce, crisps and salad dressings all hide sugar – eighty per cent of supermarket shelves can’t do without it. Excess fructose converts to fat in the liver, driving the fatty liver → diabetes → heart disease chain; children are steeped in sugar from an early age.
Fuyang’s free farm-machinery course had 50 trainees, just 7 of them women. Wu Ting and her peers hesitated again and again before the combine harvester—until one sister claimed the cab and started off steady, loosening the assumption that “women can’t drive.”
The 2026 Document No. 1 includes “low-carbon agriculture” for the first time. Tracing sixteen years of climate change in Document No. 1, the real challenge lies beneath resource surveys and climate zoning: how to design policies that allow ordinary farmers to participate and benefit.
Jiang Ke, who served seven months as a Shift Manager at McDonald’s, discovered that the precise order-fulfilment system is both advanced and fragile—behind the beeps and countdowns lies the staff’s real experience of “human-machine unity” in a cramped kitchen.
A small strip of clay by the courtyard wall of our Hangzhou studio: after seven batches of hot compost made from saved kitchen scraps and coffee grounds, the ground, hard as rammed earth, has loosened into black soil that opens with a single spade.
Yu Jiangang and his wife Mei Yuhui made silk duvets in Zhenghebang for over a decade. An osmanthus silkworm poisoning in autumn 2024 led him to lease 14 mu of rice paddies – from seedling to Lidong harvest, four rounds of hand-weeding, a nearly 180-day life cycle complete.
