Veteran BBC journalist Dan Saladino compiled 40 stories of foods at risk of vanishing into Eating to Extinction, published in Chinese by Beiye Books. At the 3rd International Congress on Agricultural Biodiversity, he stated that only by saving diversity can the Earth and humanity have more choices.
Having endured a once-in-60-years drought, farmers in Liuzhou, Nandan, and Hechi in Guangxi now face sustained torrential rain. Four first-hand accounts describe water sources washed away, livelihoods disrupted, and fears that the abrupt shift from drought to flood is becoming the norm.
Yi woman Kangli and Greater Khingan Range forager Jin Peng discuss pricing mountain produce, the drain of people from mountain villages, and the challenges and hopes amid climate change.
Foodthink’s Lianhe Programme-funded “Fake Meat” Drives Out Real Meat drew over a hundred reader comments, from “herders just want higher prices” to “rainforest burning across the ocean concerns every living creature”. Imported Brazilian beef’s link to Amazon deforestation is far more complex than “nothing to do with us”.
From food delivery containers and courier parcels to mooncake gift boxes, people document the layers of plastic wound around everyday life and share tips on reuse, bringing your own containers, and finding recycling points to cut back on plastic.
Renso, a Chinese woman on a Working Holiday Visa, delivers food on foot for Uber Eats in Melbourne – over 80 orders and 1,200+ AUD in her first month. No fixed deadlines, no docked pay, no impatient customers: this laid-back rhythm gradually cured her anxiety.
American writer Susan Freinkel traces in Plastic Wars plastic’s spread from a Second World War military material to 400 million tonnes of global annual consumption, arguing the problem lies not in the material but in how throwaway consumer culture shaped it into a dependency hard to shed.
Tracing how cattle from rancher Heller, whom Brazilian police called “the greatest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest,” moved from illegally deforested ranches to legal abattoirs, then to four Hong Kong trading companies — while import checks focused on food safety, with no requirement to trace the source of deforestation.
Summer arrives, and with it, another season for watermelon. Watermelons are inseparable from summer, just as the farmers behind the fruit evolve alongside their crop. Wherever there is land, you will find the watermelon farmers of Taizhou. Their history of enterprise dates back to the 1980s, forming another chapter in…
Foodthink Says Since this spring, Shaanxi has experienced its most severe drought since 1961. Combined with extreme weather such as high temperatures, strong winds, and sandstorms, these compound disasters have seriously threatened agricultural production and rural livelihoods. In May, with the support of the Oxfam Hong Kong Beijing office, Foodthink…
