This project situates left-behind children’s daily life, especially foodways and health consequences, within both individual households and rural communities at large, to reveal in ethnographic details the effects of parents’ migration upon their children’s wellbeing in the context of local economic conditions, socioecological systems, and cultural values that have also been undergoing modifications due to migration and industrialization. Doing so will allow this research to illuminate how familial bonds and socioecological relations in rural communities have been changing, in terms of the ways they affect and are affected by dietary practices, under the sustained pressure of rural-to-urban migration.