Asia Rethinking the food system to address hunger, health and social equality: Notes from the northeast of India November 26, 2019 0 Image Credit: Dozens of tea pickers among tea bushes, Roger Burks/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sujata Dutta Hazarika I…
Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
China The eternal debate: Do all Chinese outbound tourists want to eat Chinese food? Answer: No. Do all Chinese outbound tourists prefer to eat à la chinoise? Yes February 12, 2019 1 Written by Wolfgang Georg Arlt. A little more than two hundred years ago, in January 1817, one of the greatest banquets in the history of…
China Why rice growers are more sexually liberal than wheat growers September 28, 2017 1 Written by Yang Hu. Recent years have seen claims that a “national sex revolution” is well underway in China and that it has “has reached a point of…
China Fake Wine in China January 16, 2017 4 Written by Anqi Shen. The wine market has grown rapidly in China. Associated with middle-class consumption, imported top-end wine has increased in popularity, to the…
China Eating and Drinking in Chinese Officialdom January 9, 2017 0 Written by Jiangnan Zhu and Xiaoming Zhong. In the period leading up to Xi Jinping’s ascension, banqueting had become both prevalent and lavish in Chinese…
China Food Safety in China: Perceptions and Accountability December 21, 2016 0 Written by Megan Tracy. Prompted by highly-publicized food safety incidents, including the sale of 40-year old meat, hormone-tainted bean sprouts, recycled ‘gutter’ oil, and adulterated…
China Brazil and China: What kind of agri-food partnership? December 20, 2016 4 Written by John Wilkinson. Since 2009, China has been Brazil´s leading trade partner both for exports (18.6%) and for imports (17.9%). Its agribusiness sector makes…
Food GM Debates with Chinese Characteristics? December 19, 2016 0 Written by Joy Y. Zhang. When I first started examining the governance of genetically modified (GM) food in China two years ago, I expected my…
