Species protection, ecosystem change, and habitat loss.
Foodthink’s Take How exactly is agriculture being affected by climate change? Foodthink has published a series of articles on this topic. Today, we share the insights of a grower on the front line. Zhao Fei graduated from the College of Agriculture at China Agricultural University, after which he joined Pingren…
At the Fifth National Farmers’ Seed Network Annual Conference, smallholders from Yunnan, Guangxi, Hebei, Jiangsu and beyond exchanged on seed selection and cross-breeding, linked Community Seed Banks to farmers’ markets, and wove old varieties, ethnic food, and festival rites back into the fields.
Shigeichi Okada’s Shumei Natural Farming, Masanobu Fukuoka’s four nos, MOA Oami Farm, and Akifumi Kimura’s apple orchard — from founding to fragmentation, Japan’s Natural Farming schools have charted distinct paths between rejecting external inputs and pragmatic flexibility.
