In Penang’s Batu Maung, durian tours take tourists seeking old-tree kampung flavours, while an exceptionally abundant harvest has also left orchard owners facing a price crash and a dispute over tree-ripened durian.
From orchards in Johor and Pahang to Mersing wholesale points and the LKE Group investment promotion meeting, on the eve of fresh Musang King durian’s entry into China, Chinese demand is reshaping picking, export, frozen processing and durian-tree investment.
Following a Urumqi screening of the documentary Whose Table, Whose Pasture, livestock experts, university students, community builders and retired forestry and grassland officials shared their views on pasture degradation, pastoralist income and food systems.
Following imported frozen beef and mutton into Qinghai Lake’s pastoral areas, the film documents the impact of falling purchase prices on herders and meat traders. Screening 12 June at Zhejiang University’s Department of Sociology, with a post-screening discussion between the department’s food systems researchers and Foodthink.
On 26 May 2026 at 19:00, Foodthink will screen “Whose Dining Table, Whose Rangeland” in Nanjing, a documentary tracing how imported frozen meat has driven down cattle and sheep purchase prices around Qinghai Lake and altered pastoralists’ livelihoods. Registration is free for Nanjing viewers.
Foodthink screens the field-research documentary “Whose Table, Whose Pasture” at Yonghe Lane Community, Tianshan District, Ürümqi, documenting herders around Qinghai Lake as imported frozen meat floods the market, livestock prices plummet and livelihoods buckle. Post-screening, local organisations and guests discuss whether Xinjiang’s pastoral areas face similar upheaval.
Nearly 10,000 EU farmers hurled potatoes at the EU headquarters building in Brussels to protest the Mercosur free trade agreement. Ukraine’s grain price collapse, Brazil’s deforestation for cattle, and China’s smallholder green transition dilemma point to one question: who bears the cost of structural transformation?
Canned condensed milk and milk powder made perishable milk portable and shelf-stable; companies such as Borden and Nestlé sold them to colonies, mines and urban households, while ice cream and chocolate pushed demand even higher.
Several young directors at the World Nomadic Film Festival in Jiagedaqi, deep in the Greater Khingan Range, film the shocks facing pastoral areas: imported meat driving prices down, fenced pastures replacing the life of following water and grass, and grandchildren who can no longer speak their elders’ Mongolian.
Britain turned the world into a source of food, weaving the inequalities of class, race and species into a single food system: the famines in Ireland and India, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and industrialised slaughter all sprang from it.