Species protection, ecosystem change, and habitat loss.
Farmer Liu Yurong in Wangjingzhuang, Shexian, Hebei, has revived the White Common Bean, nearly lost from the village, yet 171 heritage varieties in the area still face the compounded pressures of replacement by new varieties, abandoned terraced fields and extreme drought.
Over 16 years, Louis turned a banana plantation on the edge of the Atlantic Forest in Paraná into a Syntropic Agroforestry system. Zhang Zhiwei follows him into the woodland — cutting leaves, felling pseudostems, thinning suckers — and now returns to Yunnan to root this knowledge underfoot.
From Yunnan’s Red Junglefowl, Guizhou’s high-legged chicken and Little Liangshan Yi chickens, Zou Lei, a PhD student at Minzu University of China, sees that local chicken breeds are fading as industrialised farming, urbanisation and foreign varieties arrive, and food, language and ritual change accordingly.
Veteran BBC journalist Dan Saladino compiled 40 stories of foods at risk of vanishing into Eating to Extinction, published in Chinese by Beiye Books. At the 3rd International Congress on Agricultural Biodiversity, he stated that only by saving diversity can the Earth and humanity have more choices.
For World Book Day, Foodthink’s editors, authors and peers recommend books that connect food, land and the natural environment, including Bruno Latour’s ecological politics, French rural transformation, China’s environmental movement, vanishing foods and industrial additives.
From deforested ranches in the Amazon to European supermarket shelves, Marcel Gomes of Brazil’s investigative organisation Repórter Brasil pieces together the route by which JBS and other Brazilian meat firms put illegally deforested beef into global markets.
Cat Alliance is turning a cornfield in Heshun, Shanxi, into a bond between North China leopards, villagers, and urban audiences through ecological agriculture without chemical fertilisers or pesticides – exploring a new path for conservation and community coexistence.
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…
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.
I. Returning to 2011 The reserve’s shuttle stopped by the side of a narrow concrete road, flanked by karst limestone mountains that seemed strangely familiar. We passed through a sugarcane grove; in fact, countless bare stone peaks in the area are surrounded by sugarcane. Unlike the black-purple skin of fruit…
