Labor in food and farming systems, migrant workers, labor rights, and changes in production-side work.
Two summers ago, I graduated with a Master’s in Sociology and joined a leading real estate company to work in agriculture, feeling a mix of anticipation and anxiety. Three seemingly unrelated paths converged in this way; my decision to veer away from the mainstream career trajectory left my family and…
I am Xiaomi. In December 2021, at the age of 26, I resigned from a civil service training company. Without a clear idea of what job to look for, I headed home to prepare for the Lunar New Year. During the holiday, I began to think about my future; I…
In the UK news of 2022, alongside the death of the Queen, the accession of King Charles, skyrocketing heating and electricity bills, and the revolving door of Prime Ministers, there was also the “egg shortage” towards the end of the year. For several weeks between November and December, egg supplies…
Foodthink says In the Inner Mongolia region, where the vast majority of herders have transitioned to settled livestock farming, many cases of gastric perforation caused by barbed wire have emerged among cattle and sheep across grasslands now divided by fences. Meanwhile, in the banners of Ordos, where high-yield livestock breeds…
A Note from Foodthink Since the launch of the recruitment for the second intake of Foodthink’s Ecological Farming Internship Programme, we have received many applications. Thank you all for your interest! We have been getting in touch with suitable candidates and conducting detailed interviews. By the end of this month,…
Three years on German organic farms and a month on a Chinese one inform the ergonomic habits and specific tools — ploughing forks, small hoes, row markers — that reduce strain on back and joints.
Every Sunday, more than 200 farmers and local producers sell their own produce directly at nearly 20 London markets, with a set proportion of ingredients from within 100 miles. For many Londoners, these are among the few open spaces to get outside and talk face to face with producers during the pandemic.
Starting with the small grocery shop opened by 28 textile workers in Rochdale in 1844, this piece traces how the seven co-operative principles took shape in the workers’ daily operations, and why the co-operative economy has regained attention after the financial crisis.
At a farmers’ market in a small American Midwest town, a pig and cattle farmer running eight hundred mu of land single-handedly still sells meat, fixes machines and climbs trees on a still-healing hip – because farm income cannot keep a family afloat.
Deployed as the Bracero Programme ended, the UC Davis harvester saw 4,428 of California’s 5,000 tomato farms collapse, displaced 32,000 workers, and replaced hand-picked fruit with a bland, machine-friendly variety still in most American ketchup.
