Urban Farming Archives

COVID19 Price Hikes: call for food security in Hong Kong

Interview discussing Covid19 price hikes. I share my views on the vulnerability of our urban food system, the opportunity to...

10/02/2022

Food Waste in Asian Cities Singapore & Hong Kong

Food waste is a global issue, but for Asian cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, the majority of the waste...

16/03/2021

Our Dystopic Food System

Our dystopic food system produces both both hunger and excess, a logic so contradictory that seems only possible in dystopic...

17/02/2021

Rethinking living with urban agriculture

In every crisis there is an opportunity, and now is the time to rethink what living could mean if we...

11/08/2020

Hunger Crisis

COVID19 is deepening the hunger crisis. According to Oxfam’s latest report, 12,000 people per day will die from hunger caused...

17/07/2020

Lessons from Covid19 lockdown, Build Back Better

As the world slowly emerges from the COVID pandemic lockdown, many are wondering what lessons can be learnt from this...

23/06/2020

Live Like It’s Doomsday 我們日用的飲食, 怎樣交給我們？

Pushing my trolley around the supermarkets’ empty shelves a few months ago – I couldn’t help but replay the scene...

05/05/2020

Urban Resilience, local and seasonal

Sourcing local and seasonal has become the response to the disruptions seen in our food supply chain. More than just...

21/04/2020

Food shortage in time of COVID

The food shortage we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities of our food system. In Hong Kong, we...

02/04/2020

The Future of Food and the City: Security, Sustainability or Resilience?

Hong Kong and Singapore are often considered twin cities on the global stage – it is similar in terms of...

08/03/2019

Cultivating a better Hong Kong through Urban Farming

My view is that urban agriculture is not a thing of the past, many cities in the world are experimenting...

01/03/2019

譚迪詩談糧食供應問題

An opportunity to discuss the state of Hong Kong’s urban food system. How do we begin to build a stronger,...

06/03/2018

Hong Kong Zero-Waste Champions on South China Morning Post

Featured as one of six women leaders of Hong Kong’s “zero-waste” movement. I spoke to Lauren James about my research...

03/03/2018

Consuming Nature

The Zurich University of the Arts hosted a talk series on the topic of Ecologies: Matters of Coexistence for their...

19/09/2017

How Secure is Food? Tedx Wanchai 2016

An opportunity to speak to an audience of 1200 at the Academy of Performing Arts – the largest Tedx event...

29/10/2016

Eating Habits

An interview by the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the Hong Kong’s eating habits and sustainability. Cultural behaviours and trends affect...

28/12/2014

The Edible Wall

As part of the Knowledge Transfer Project “Greener Living – micro urban farming and turning waste into resource”, I started...

19/02/2014

In a Grain of Rice

I was invited to chair the session called Food for Thought at Asia Society’s event “In a grain of Rice:...

17/01/2014

Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture

“Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture” was one of the earliest event I organised at Hong Kong Baptist University. I invited...

06/12/2012

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