With Atlantic salmon return-migration survival at just 3% – down from 50% – fewer than 2 million remain wild while some 400 million are penned off Norway’s coast. In Eating to Extinction, BBC journalist Dan Saladino charts the fish’s homeward journey from river to sea and its endangered plight.
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.
Social worker He Siqi spent a month as a picker at JD Qixian—real-time PDA countdowns, monitoring-screen pressure, fines for mistakes. Behind “30-minute delivery” are bodies sprinting without rest between shelves.
Harvesters mired in mud, cobs moulded overnight, good grain at just 0.3 yuan a jin — after drought gave way to waterlogging, farmers in six Hebei and Henan counties have lost ground at every stage, while drying towers and insurance remain out of reach for most farms.
No weather allowance, and fines for not clocking in – the platform’s “tiered reward” scheme pushes risk onto riders. On downpour days there is no circuit breaker; the city’s convenience never pauses, only a person’s safety does.
IPES-FOOD’s report Fuel to Fork dissects how the food system consumes at least 15% of the world’s fossil fuels—from nitrogen fertiliser in the fields and ultra-processed foods and plastic in factories, to supermarket refrigerated cabinets and household stoves—and offers eight decoupling recommendations.
Jianning joins Foodthink’s Ecological Agriculture Internship Programme, picking blueberries, corn, and lychees at Yinlin Farm in Conghua, Guangzhou, observing chickens, birds, black goats, and villagers at work, and sensing the living connection between food and the land.
Disaster relief worker Hao Nan led disaster relief organisation Zhuoming’s team back to the Miyun and Xinglong disaster areas to reconstruct how abnormal mountain floods formed and how the grassroots judged evacuation timing. Grassroots disaster prevention and reduction still lack funding, staff and technical calculations.
Kouzi purified domestic wastewater in Wuren Valley using banana plants and water lilies, battled cogon grass for four years, cultivated humus from barren, compacted wasteland, and realised a self-sufficient way of living that thrives alongside the land.
From the rice fields of the Northeast to Hainan’s orchards, cross-region drone pilot Brother Yang, drone-buying farmer Zhao Mingliang, and others are facing falling spray unit prices, pesticide damage disputes and occupational illness risks for which compensation is hard to claim.
