This position paper, drafted at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, calls for ending transnational corporations’ monopoly over seeds and land, rebuilding food production through agroecology, and incorporating food sovereignty into the international human rights framework.
During a Foodthink internship, an anthropology postgraduate visits over a dozen ecological farms: five mu of hand-tended polytunnels, eighty mu of mechanised open fields, food-forest-style Guiling and Baicaoyuan — seeing new farmers, beyond chemical fertilisers and pesticides, forge cultivation and dwelling with weed-like freedom.
Meituan, producer of food-delivery plastic waste, is now funding plastic-reduction environmental organisations. Shanshui Nature Conservation Centre co-founder Sun Shan and environmental advocate Ma Tianjie trace the complex funding relationships and strategic manoeuvres between public interest organisations and businesses, from Jinguang Paper to the Nestlé infant formula scandal.
Since January this year, the US has faced widespread egg shortages due to avian flu. Because of the scarcity, many supermarkets have introduced purchase limits, and stockouts have become frequent. Meanwhile, egg prices have soared. Americans, accustomed to cheap eggs every day, have been voicing their frustration. This scene feels…
Qiaoyun’s family moved from the Nanling Yao Mountains to the plains beside Shaoguan Danxia Airport in the 1990s. The mountain-and-forest intuition sharpened by generations of shifting cultivation lets them find Summer Solstice Mushrooms earlier than others in the mushroom-foraging army.
From Liuzhou in Guangxi to Kunming in Yunnan, fall armyworm in the maize fields of farmer Old Lei and Yanta Village farmers has made spraying more frequent and costly, drawing out issues of climate warming, pesticide resistance and genetically modified maize.
The world’s table begins with China’s small pulses 10 February 2025 marks the seventh World Pulses Day. This year’s theme is “Pulses: Bringing Diversity to Agrifood Systems”. Grow pulses, eat pulses; diverse farming, healthy living. Soya beans, edamame, and black beans are common staples on the dining table, yet all…
Three months interning at Guixinyuan Farm in Huizhou — weeding, feeding chickens, studying weeds — then touring farms in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Beijing, Zejun found ecological agriculture offers no single right answer: only a spectrum, and a way of thinking.
CP Foods imported 2,000 Blackchin tilapia from Ghana in 2010 for a breeding trial. After escaping into natural waterways, the fish spread across 19 provinces in Thailand over more than a decade, leaving fishermen with direct losses of 2.486 billion Thai baht.
From meat shops in county towns in the pastoral areas of Qinghai and Gansu to ranches in the Brazilian Amazon created by deforestation, low-priced imported beef and mutton push down local grass-fattened meat prices and affect herders’ income from livestock sales and their livelihoods.
