Recruitment, programme records, participant stories, and reviews from the Agroecology Internship.
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,…
This episode was recorded in the Alxa desert of Inner Mongolia by Qihua, Foodthink’s lead on climate change and ecological smallholder research, along with two guests. In late August 2022, the three of them sat under a large tree in an oasis within the Tengger Desert; you may hear the…
During a gap year, former Shanghai new-media practitioner Tian She Lao Weng joined Foodthink’s Lianhe Project at Zhiliangtian Farm on the edge of the Tengger Desert in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, seeing how farming, the rain and melon sales connect food and ecology to personal life.
In 2021, the first season of the reality documentary *Clarkson’s Farm*, featuring a grumpy old man trying his hand at farming, earned a high score of 9.6 on Douban. This February 10th, the second season is set to premiere. Why has Jeremy Clarkson—the wealthy old man and former host of…
A former Shanghai programmer spent two farm internships in Sichuan learning organic growing from Xuemei and Chen Ying, and is now seeking land in Hebei to begin her own holding.
A turbulent year of lockdowns, extreme heat, and disrupted food systems in China, seen through Foodthink’s nearly 100 articles, 40 events, and 13 podcast episodes — from Shanghai’s vegetable scrambles to a climate survey of ecological smallholders.
Chen Chong spent a month at the Tang family’s eleven-person farm in Jintang County near Chengdu, where a scattered household has spent a decade finding its way back together on the land.
