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Category Archives: Urban-to-Rural Migration
The Third Road?
After spending the past two weeks in Jilin helping out on the farms of friends I first met back in 2010 – Wei and the Lu Family – I sat down this morning to binge out on the news I … Continue reading
“Seeking Truth From Fact” Part II: Gaoping’s Organic Farm Cooperative
In my last post I described the recent evolution of Gaoping’s peasant-tourism cooperative association. Mainly, how the villagers scaled up from scattered, individual households opening their homes to tourists, to sharing resources and combining services to form the ‘Four Unifications’ … Continue reading
Urban-to-Rural Migration: From Business Marketing in Beijing, to Fish Farming in Sichuan?
Rapid urbanization, rural-to-urban migration, social stratification and the environmental consequences of poorly regulated economic growth and resource degradation – including the pollution of air, soil, and water, loss of arable land to development, deforestation, and desertification – are all central concerns facing China, … Continue reading
In Defense of WWOOF (Worldwide Workers on Organic Farms)
Wwoof, rather than any relation to academia, often elicits images of stinky, broke backpackers, smugly aloof in their rugged ability to brave rural home stays and exchange their labor for room and board while scoffing at the pseudo-culturally-immersed delusions of … Continue reading
China's Rural Land-Use: Notes from the Field 