“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.
In Beijing, Professor Steffanie Scott of the University of Waterloo and CSA farmer Theresa Schumilas introduced Canada’s organisational network, from national farming associations to community supported agriculture, and discussed its implications for smallholder and consumer alliances in China.
Argentine journalist Caparrós travels to seven countries, turning 800 million people’s statistics into lived reality — beans boiling in a thatched hut, fried chicken rummaged from a rubbish mountain — and traces the root cause to the financialization of food and power, not insufficient production.