By Tarjei Brekke, PhD student ERC-MidWay Exploring the concept of sufficiency in China forces one’s feet to balance atop a crooked, rickety fence. On the one side, asking the everyperson on the street and in the teahouses about sustainability incites hour-long, sometimes heated, discussions about how the West and in particular the US only just… Read more »
In this last post in our series of updates from the multi-stakeholder workshop on “Urban food, sufficiency, and sustainable agriculture in China” held in August 2023, we will summarise some of the points from the group work at the very end of the workshop. The informative and engaging workshop presentations set the stage for the… Read more »
In the past two blog posts, we covered the first and the second parts of our workshop on Urban food, sufficiency, and sustainable agriculture in China. In this blog post, we delve deeper into the topic of wet markets, as they are placed at the intersection between food production and consumption, and the changes wet… Read more »
As mentioned in our first blogpost, the following series of posts will summarise the workshop on “Urban food, sufficiency, and sustainable agriculture in China” organised on August 26, 2023, in Guangzhou, China. This post covers the workshop’s second part, which focused on animal agriculture, wet markets, pigs, and the pig industry. The second part was initiated by… Read more »
As mentioned in our first blogpost, the following series of posts will summarise the workshop on “Urban food, sufficiency, and sustainable agriculture in China” organised on August 26, 2023, in Guangzhou, China. This post covers the first part of the workshop. The workshop started with inspiring opening remarks by Dr. Eva Sternfeld from the Sino-German… Read more »
The MidWay Project is delighted to share our experience of hosting our first successful China workshop on “Urban food, sufficiency, and sustainable agriculture in China” on August 26, 2023. The workshop was organized by Marius Korsnes（马力）(PI), Dongming Xu, Wang Yu, Shuhua Chen, Wenjia Zhou, and Tarjei Brekke and Yu Cheng from NTNU in partnership with… Read more »
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