Foodthink says Pickled vegetables, sour soups, fermented milk curds, bread, beer, sausages, cheese… Whether in China or abroad, fermented foods are everywhere. This may be because fermentation is, at its core, a biological process in which ubiquitous microorganisms interact with their specific surrounding environment. In modern society, fermented…
I grew up wandering through wet markets. Day to day, I am just an office worker in a cubicle, but come the New Year, I transform into the “deputy” of our family’s grocery stall. What is a wet market, exactly? For ordinary people living by the natural rhythm…
Heading to the town market, I found two snack stalls within three paces. One stall was run by a local elderly woman. She has a permanent spot in the market, sitting on a low stool by a pot of hot oil, frying and selling dengzhangao (traditional Fujian fried…
This year marks the UN-designated International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. To raise awareness of rangelands and pastoralists, the investigative documentary *Whose Table, Whose Pasture?*, supported by the Foodthink Lianhe Creation Programme, will be screened in Nanjing on the afternoon of 26 May. Following the screening, Tianle from Foodthink will…
Registration for the Jiangxi session of the Local Ecological Agriculture Co-learning and Co-building Camp closes on 25 May 2026. With only a few places remaining, we encourage early registration. As a non-profit platform advocating sustainable food and farming systems, Foodthink published an open call in early 2024:…
Like many who follow international rural politics, I had long heard of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). Keywords such as landless peasants, land occupation, struggle, and land reform are so strongly associated with the group that I instinctively equated it with a movement “rooted in rural settlements and sustained…
20 May marks World Bee Day. Silkworms and bees are the only two insects domesticated by humans, yet when drones fly overhead, their dead bodies litter the fields. Having covered silkworms, we now turn our attention back to bees, an essential pollinator. China’s agriculture depends on pollinators…
This year marks the United Nations’ “International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists”. To help more people understand rangelands and pastoralists, the field research documentary *Whose Table Whose Pasture*, supported by the Foodthink Lianhe Creative Project, will be screened in Urumqi on the afternoon of 23 May. Xinjiang-based organisations, institutions, and invited…
Foodthink says In March this year, pesticide spraying in oilseed rape fields caused severe losses for beekeepers, briefly thrusting bee mortality into the public eye. Yet beyond the visible “deaths” lies a more insidious disappearance: rather than perishing in large numbers inside their hives, bees are abandoning their colonies…
