Introductions, activities, progress updates, participant records, and reviews related to the Lianhe Programme.
Foodthink is a knowledge, information, and writing community dedicated to sustainable food and agriculture, founded and managed by a group of partners with long-term experience in agricultural and food practice and research. Since our inception in August 2017, we have connected with nearly 200 outstanding researchers and practitioners from both…
Recently, reports of the “field-rotting rains” in Henan and the rush to harvest wheat have spread across social media, causing anxiety for everyone concerned with agriculture. The Guanzhong region of Shaanxi, also a major wheat-producing area, experienced these “field-rotting rains” almost simultaneously with Henan, and the damage to the crops…
Highlights from the 10th annual Farmer’s Seed Network meeting at China Agricultural University in Suzhou, where farmers, researchers and local agriculture officials discussed community seed banks, heirloom varieties, organic seed certification, climate adaptation and seed exchange.
The Foodthink agroecology internship sends its second cohort to nine ecological farms, from Alxa’s desert fields to Hainan’s pomelo orchards, where interns learn from mentors and explore food, soil and new ways of living.
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.
From an open-hearth dinner in walnut oil to a mountain village where heritage pigs forage on acorns, two days of Lisu cooking reveal how over a hundred wild greens serve as both nourishment and medicine.
In the karst mountains of Nandan County, Guangxi, Li Youming left years of city work to cultivate heirloom rice without chemicals, building a family seed bank he hopes will carry his people’s tradition forward.
