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Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various international news media including through her own newsletter Thin Ink. She is also Lead Reporter for the Food Systems Newsroom of Lighthouse Reports, a collaborative European news outlet. Born and raised in Myanmar, she is a sought-after speaker on Myanmar and moderator on food, agriculture and climate change. Thin is the founder of Myanmar Now, an award-winning bilingual news agency, producing in-depth reports on the country’s historic elections and co-founded The Kite Tales, a unique preservation project that chronicles the lives and histories of ordinary people across Myanmar.

Climate Change

Revealed: The Taxpayer-Funded Campaign to Discredit Pesticides’ Climate Risks

Thin Lei Win Oct 21, 2024

A new investigation led by Lighthouse Reports has uncovered a covert campaign partly funded by American taxpayers to downplay the risk of pesticides and discredit climate experts in Africa, Europe and North America. Food and climate…
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Seafood

Uncovering the Ugly Truth Behind India’s Shrimp Farming Industry

Thin Lei Win May 22, 2024

Food and climate journalist Thin Lei Win speaks to Ian Urbina, executive editor of The Outlaw Ocean Project, about the organisation's investigation into India's shrimp farming industry. On March 20, The Outlaw Ocean Project, a…
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Food & Nutrition

All Countries Suffer From Some Form of Malnutrition: Inaugural Global Food Systems Report Highlights Critical Issues

Thin Lei Win Jan 28, 2024

A new report creates accountability for national food systems with a range of indicators that offer "the first descriptive picture of what’s going on in the world’s food systems across all countries." What is The Food Systems Countdown…
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Policy & Regulation

Deep Dive: How the Livestock Lobby Sunk Its Teeth Into the EU’s Animal Welfare Legislations

Thin Lei Win Nov 3, 2023

Food and climate journalist Thin Lei Win shares more details and context about the Lighthouse Reports investigation she worked on with multiple journalists and co-published by The Guardian and IRPI exploring how meat lobby groups pushed…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

Comms Queen Katherine Miller: ‘Chefs Are Key To Making The Food System More Just and Sustainable’

Thin Lei Win Oct 5, 2023

Thin Lei Win talks to former James Beard exec, GWU Terker fellow and communications expert Katherine Miller about her new book and why chefs are the perfect advocates to bring about structural change to food systems. I used to think I…
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Zero Waste

Circular Food Systems Are The Answer: Findings From The First Major Study On Their Potential

Thin Lei Win Apr 24, 2023

A new study suggests that we don't need to wait for techno-based solutions to make our food systems more sustainable. If there is a way to make our food systems more sustainable without having to wait for a technological miracle,…
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