Grassland herders, grazing systems, ecological change, and livelihood issues.
Farmers, grassroots social organisations and funders at the Nanning workshop discussed cases such as Huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) in navel oranges and pasture degradation in grazing regions: market conditions and policy gaps often shape rural climate resilience more than extreme weather.
Social enterprise “Muyunpo”, rooted in Xiaojin County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, organises Jiarong Tibetan region villagers to independently forage matsutake, free-graze yaks and grow apples, returning sales surplus to villagers’ groups at year-end. Yunhui and Xixi share how they found a different path.
Grass-fed yak meat prices on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have fallen year after year, while imported grain-fed meat from Brazil, New Zealand and elsewhere floods Tibetan-area shops at half price — leaving herders who live off livestock in a bind: they cannot sell their animals, nor afford to eat meat.
Foodthink’s Take On 16 February, Foodthink hosted an in-person sharing session centred on *Fake Meat Displaces Real Meat*, a featured work of the Lianhe Creative Project. The author and guest panellists engaged in a lively discussion on topics such as the impact of imported meat and the future of traditional…
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.
Li Pengyue, a former IT professional now running an ecological orchard in Weihai, Shandong, compares crop losses from birds and rabbits to a trapped snow leopard and nine dead sheep, and the real question is who pays when wildlife damages crops and livestock.
Gerile and other dairy producers in Sanggen Dalai Town, Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia, describe how hand-fermentation, local fresh milk and wooden tools shape flavour, and explain why standardised upgrading makes it hard for many small workshops to expand production.
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…
