Cheng Qiu

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About Cheng Qiu

Cheng Qiu is a Chinese researcher, practitioner, educator, speaker and writer on sustainable agriculture and food systems. She is the founder and CEO of a social enterprise on sustainability, focusing on educating change-makers to restore human-nature relationship through food. She collaborates with a wide network of partners to promote food forests/forest gardens (perennial poly-culture agricultural systems), urban agriculture and composting systems, educational farms/gardens, and alternative food networks in China. She has given over 50 talks and trainings on sustainable food systems in mainland China and Taiwan since 2017. Her talks and writings have been widely circulated, empowering hundreds of thousands to participate in the food movements in China. E.g. Ted-Talk: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QhZQWW2CCrnsyFM_2DVEVQ Essay: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lZVKKP22WDT_GHXYvJt65w Interview: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UhKzhiz6Gnb5GTbvQpgsKQ Currently Cheng is the first Chinese doctoral fellow in Food Studies at NYU, focusing on researching the discourse and political ecology of China's agri-food systems transition. She has an interdisciplinary background of economics, public policy, agroecology, soil ecology, nutrition, human microbiology and holistic health. Previously Cheng worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducting impact evaluations of development policies for four years while part-time participating in the US sustainable food movements in Washington, D.C. She returned to China promoting sustainable agri-food systems as Food & Agriculture Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia (Beijing) for 8 months before her PhD in Food Studies at NYU. A minimalist, permaculturist, changemaker and citoyenne du monde, Cheng devotes her life to the paradigm shift of Earth’s socio-nature systems through mindset change and actions of people. WeChat Public Media- Forested (Institutional)- Bonheur (Individual)