Livestock production systems including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and related animals.
Did you know? According to research published in *The Lancet*, two-thirds of the world’s population suffer from some degree of lactose intolerance, experiencing symptoms such as bloating and diarrhoea after consuming milk. If this is the case, why has milk become such a ubiquitous daily beverage across the globe? When…
Yue Xiaoxiao of the Beijing Xuanwu Youth Science and Technology Museum is leading primary and secondary school students to study Italian cocklebur’s invasive damage through questionnaires, interviews and field visits, inviting farmers in and around Beijing to join and farmers elsewhere to complete the questionnaire.
In late June, while travelling to Jiangbutasi Village in eastern Altay, Xinjiang, we frequently encountered Kazakh herders on horseback driving their cattle and sheep to new pastures, with cars often coming to a halt to let the herds pass. This is the peak of the migration season. Herders in the…
From 6 April, sand has been blowing almost every day in Damao Banner, Baotou, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The worst was on the 10th, when a sandstorm lasted for nearly five hours; outside, the wind and sand blotted out the sun, leaving the indoors dim and dark. “We…
Twenty hours later, I finally set foot on the thick blankets of snow in Lapland, northern Sweden. It was seven o’clock in the morning, and the dawn had not yet fully broken over Jokkmokk; however, the light reflecting off the brilliant white snow was enough to reveal the silhouettes of…
Since Dutch farmers’ protests against nitrogen reduction policies began over six months ago, the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB), widely seen as ‘pro-farmer’, has emerged as a dark horse in this March’s provincial elections. Founded just four years ago, the BBB not only secured nearly 20% of the vote but…
Foodthink says In the Inner Mongolia region, where the vast majority of herders have transitioned to settled livestock farming, many cases of gastric perforation caused by barbed wire have emerged among cattle and sheep across grasslands now divided by fences. Meanwhile, in the banners of Ordos, where high-yield livestock breeds…
A note from Foodthink As temperatures rise, many farmers in the north are ending their winter dormancy and preparing for spring ploughing. For herders on the grasslands, however, the winter and spring lambing and calving season is the busiest time of the year, and the period when local veterinarians make…
I. I. Mother’s Hearth Leaving Lijiang Ancient City to the northwest and passing Lashi Lake, we could see the silver-white peaks of the Jade Dragon and Haba snow mountains in the distance as we travelled through the high mountain valleys along the banks of the Jinsha River. Mid-October marks the…
