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Foodthink (食通社)
A Beijing-based independent food-systems community connecting China's small ecological farmers, researchers and eaters
Since 2017Works nationally
- food systems
- ecological farming
- smallholders
- farmer training
- independent media
- agrobiodiversity
Founded in 2017 by Chang Tianle, who previously started the Beijing Farmers' Market in 2010. Foodthink publishes original reporting on small-scale ecological farming, agrobiodiversity and food workers, runs film screenings and reading groups, and organises farmer-to-farmer training. In October 2026 it co-hosts a three-day ecological farming training camp for 20 small farmers from southwest China in Chongzhou, Chengdu.
It publishes several posts a week on topics such as pesticides and farmland birds, women tea-factory workers and foragers, runs the '食日谈' podcast, and has collaborated with the Farmers' Seed Network.
What they need
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- International food-sovereignty exchange
- Scholarship funding for farmer trainees
- Story partners
What they offer
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- Farmer-to-farmer ecological farming training
- Reporting from China's ecological farming movement
- Screenings, reading groups and podcasts