After the wholesale market, riverside villages, maize fields and ginseng fields were flooded, silt clearing and reconstruction are continuing; rain will persist in the north-east, and some areas may suffer secondary damage.
The New York State Attorney General’s Office and the non-profit Environmental Working Group sued Brazil’s JBS and Tyson Foods over misleading “climate-friendly” claims for industrialised beef; after settlements, the companies retracted or revised their net-zero pledges, but eco-labels on packaging still need verifiable evidence.
From motorways to fertilised farmland, it is a designed technological system—not personal choice—that locks modern life into oil. This system and war are two sides of the same coin, yet need not remain inseparable.
Of 58 applications, twelve projects were selected following initial screening, online interviews, and expert panel review, covering ecological restoration, community composting, low-cost disaster risk reduction for smallholder farmers, and women’s empowerment.
Sustained heavy rain from Typhoon Maysak breached Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi, flooding jasmine fields, rice paddies and fish ponds, displacing tens of thousands, and bringing the challenges of agricultural insurance and flood resilience under extreme weather into sharp focus.
Inspection and loss assessment, random sampling and premium refunds mean that agricultural insurance payouts to smallholder farmers often diverge from expectations; in widespread disasters, claims-paying capacity and catastrophe risk pooling remain under pressure.
Yi Fujin of Zhejiang University begins with one cow, one mu of maize and a late spring cold snap to explain how agricultural insurance works and why smallholder farmers struggle to get their claims paid in extreme weather.
Foodthink’s sixth round of the Lianhe Programme is open to applications from smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and community organisations, offering grants of 5,000–30,000 yuan and communications support for frontline climate mitigation and adaptation projects. Applications close on 17 May.
Four Foodthink articles on delivery riders, corn mould in North China, rural heating in Hebei, and high-standard farmland — none a traditionally “sensitive” topic — were successively taken down from the platform, and the space for public discussion shrank with each recurrence.
Zuo Zhi, Executive Director of the Yunnan Sili Ecological Substitution Technology Center, works in the fields teaching farmers to use fewer pesticides and grow landrace rice, building trust by “speaking in plain terms” and advancing climate-friendly rice.