From sugar-funded commentary by Harvard professors to obesity research backed by Coca-Cola, corporate interests have shaped US dietary guidelines, leaving ordinary people to pay the health price.
Under the Rice Tariffication Law and the impact of imported rice, smallholders on Mindanao in the Philippines face falling paddy purchase prices and high retail rice prices. They are turning to breeding and agroecology to seek food autonomy.
Udon Thani’s sugar mill was shut down for accepting excess burnt cane, stranding nearly 2,000 trucks and leaving 50,000 tonnes of cane to rot — a loss exceeding 50 million baht. Fresh harvesting, though, costs three times as much as burning, and small farmers cannot afford it.
Qingming is a festival for ancestral worship and tomb-sweeping. This year, Qingming falls on 4 April, which happens to be 404. This brings to mind those articles that have been 404 not found. Last year, several Foodthink articles “disappeared” from our WeChat official account—the highest number in our history. Yet,…
H Province farmer Old Li’s 70 mu of farmland lies under mulch film fragments blown from a neighbouring peanut haulm processing plant. The Ecology and Environment and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureaus deflect jurisdiction onto each other; over two months on, pollution persists and accountability grows ever harder.
I. Airborne Plastic Blight With spring ploughing imminent, Li Jidong, a farmer from Nuomizhuang Village in Luanzhou, Hebei, found himself unable to plough his land. Across his 70 mu of farmland, fragmented pieces of plastic mulch of various sizes, blown in from a nearby farm, were scattered everywhere. They covered…
This position paper, drafted at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, calls for ending transnational corporations’ monopoly over seeds and land, rebuilding food production through agroecology, and incorporating food sovereignty into the international human rights framework.
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.
CP Foods imported 2,000 Blackchin tilapia from Ghana in 2010 for a breeding trial. After escaping into natural waterways, the fish spread across 19 provinces in Thailand over more than a decade, leaving fishermen with direct losses of 2.486 billion Thai baht.
Foodthink’s Perspective Some media outlets have dubbed 2024 the “inaugural year of GMO commercialisation” in China. In 2023, 37 varieties of genetically modified maize and 14 varieties of genetically modified soy passed variety certification, and 26 companies were granted permits for the production and operation of GM maize and soy…