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Tag Archives: Back-to-the-Land Movement
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
China's Rural Land-Use: Notes from the Field 