Extreme weather, agricultural carbon emissions, adaptation, and mitigation strategies.
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.
I. The Seed Bottleneck In Guzhai Yao Township, Mashan County, north of Nanning, farmers’ incomes had soared thanks to growing chayote seedlings, but since last year, they have been plunged into a crisis: they have no seeds to plant. Guangxi experienced several bouts of extreme rainfall in 2024. In Mashan…
From Liuzhou in Guangxi to Kunming in Yunnan, fall armyworm in the maize fields of farmer Old Lei and Yanta Village farmers has made spraying more frequent and costly, drawing out issues of climate warming, pesticide resistance and genetically modified maize.
Starting with the 2,282-hectare community forest in Cambodia guarded by Bunong villager Long Heng, the report surveys global debates over REDD+, the voluntary carbon market and indigenous land rights, and asks whether emissions-reduction promises are credible.
This year, whether in the city or the countryside, the rising cost of vegetables is on everyone’s lips. Yet, while we complain about inflation, the farmers in the fields are facing unprecedented challenges. Few stop to ask: why are prices rising like this, and are the farmers actually making…
Liu Juan, associate professor at China Agricultural University, uses fieldwork in Chongqing, Hebei and elsewhere to show how droughts, windstorms and other shocks hit smallholder farmers facing labour outflow and low grain returns — arguing that climate adaptation must first address these fundamental questions in the agrarian transition.
Sichuan pepper trees climb from valley to summit; a Shanxi village loses a week’s power to a cold wave — climate change hits rural life in every tree, every unit of electricity. Foodthink and Oxfam (Hong Kong) Beijing Office invite rural social organisations to document on-the-ground climate adaptation experience.
Today, 13 October 2024, is the 35th International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. Established by the United Nations, this day aims to raise international awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation. Over the past year, the increasing frequency of abnormal natural disasters across various regions has remained the greatest threat to…
Last week, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai region suffered a historically rare series of blows, being hit by two consecutive typhoons of Force 10 or higher within just four days. Around 7:30 am on 16 September 2024, Typhoon Bebinca made landfall along the coast of the Lin-gang Special Area in…
Unlike last year’s brief Typhoon Doksuri downpour, this year’s relentless North China rain has nearly wiped out leafy vegetables for Liu Gang, owner of Xiaoliushu Farm in Shunyi. Autumn planting is nearly a month late, and vegetable prices have risen 40% nationwide.
