Personal stories and production narratives of smallholders, individual farmers, and family farms.
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…
I. Xiao Tang and Xiao Wen’s home is nestled in a valley. The stream there is small, barely half a metre deep, yet it flows year-round and can be found on a map. Flowing south, it joins other waterways several times before feeding into the Ohio River, which runs from…
Author’s Note My husband, Mr Panghu, and I live in a small town in the Great Lakes region of the American Midwest. The local farmers’ market has been running for nearly thirty years, and we have witnessed more than a decade of its history. This series of short pieces aims…
During the summer and autumn of 2021, Beijing experienced an exceptionally long flood season lasting 122 days, while precipitation across six northern provinces and municipalities—including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi—reached its highest level since 1961. That same autumn, I began an online master’s programme in natural resources and…
At the end of 2021, while still working for an internet company in Shanghai, I came across a recruitment notice for Foodthink’s ‘Ecological Agriculture Intern Programme’, and something about it really resonated with me. Once my application was accepted, I chose ‘Meeting Farm’ in Meishan, Sichuan, as my destination. As…
Once pioneer species establish themselves within an ecosystem, they gradually improve its carrying capacity, paving the way for a wider variety of other species to enter. As biodiversity within the system increases, the pioneer species themselves are gradually marginalised. — Pioneer species, an ecological concept I. I. Around ten years…
An independent filmmaker in Kunming, Chen Chong, spent less than a month at Liangliang Farm in Sichuan, where Tang Liang’s reunited family, shared meals and daily weeding offered a lasting sense of strength.
