Core Team

Thin Lei Win

Lead Reporter Food Systems

Thin is an award-winning multimedia journalist focusing on food and climate issues and curates her newsletter Thin Ink. Born and raised in Myanmar, she was previously an international correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and has reported from many parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. Thin founded Myanmar Now, an award-winning bilingual news agency, and co-founded The Kite Tales, a non-profit storytelling project on Myanmar.

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Investigations

Poison PR
27.09.2024

Poison PR

US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.
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Farmers Protest, Who Gains?
23.05.2024

Farmers Protest, Who Gains?

Angry farmers seized the political agenda across Europe but how many of their actual demands reached the negotiating table? We profile the power brokers who turned protests to their advantage
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The West’s Next Plastics Dump
10.10.2023

The West’s Next Plastics Dump

As Southeast Asia bans plastic waste imports, rich countries are offloading their plastic waste in even more vulnerable places – where citizens are too afraid to say no.
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Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
29.06.2023

Europe’s Potemkin Lobby

Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds
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The Hunger Profiteers
06.05.2022

The Hunger Profiteers

Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure
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