The environmental and soil impacts of agricultural inputs and pollution issues.
Since 11 May this year, a new national food safety standard has officially come into effect. The maximum residue limit for flumioxazin in chives has been increased from 0.2 mg/kg to 5 mg/kg, a 24-fold increase. While Fomephon is classified as a low-toxicity pesticide, long-term consumption may still pose certain…
Foodthink says Last Monday, we shared the reasons why more than ten young people decided to press the pause button on their city lives. Why, then, did they not choose to simply ‘lie flat’, but instead head to the countryside to learn how to farm and embrace a more laborious…
“One-size-fits-all” farm closures in no-farming zones and straw-burning bans leaving villagers detained: Jin Shuqin, Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, argues that “blocking without channeling” strays from rural revitalisation’s thriving industries and livable ecology — green and development are one.
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.
