What are the challenges faced in increasing local produce?
Why is there a need to revise the targets by 2035?
What are the new four-pronged strategy to ensure?
How can the government help local farms?
Where will this shared facilities for farms be located?
Where will the power plant be built?
When was it launched?
What is a hydrogen power plant?
How does this help in mitigating climate change?
How does producing locally help Singapore stay green?
What is the 30 by 30 green plan?
What has resulted in the closure of the fish farms?
How would this impact on our 30 by 30 food policy?
How does 30 by 30 food policy help in food security in Singaore?
What are the limitations of the 30 by 30 strategy?
What caused the drought?
Where are the areas affected?
How does this affect people?
What caused the drought?
How would the drought affects food security in Indonesia?
Interesting to note how geographical location and culture affect the meat consumption of various regions.
Where are the countries with top consumption in the following type of meat?
Bovine meat (beef)
Pig meat (pork)
Mutton and goat meat
Poultry Meat (chicken)
Fish and seafood
What are the differences between white and red meat?
Why is white meat considered to be healthier?
It will be permissible for Muslims to eat lab-cultivated meat based on a decision by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore.
How will this help to increase food resilience and help in mitigating climate change?
How well will lab grown meat be received as an alternative for protein compared to plant-based protein?
Likewise Malaysia is embarking on lab grown meat starting with seafood. Read more on https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sustainability/malaysia-lab-grown-meat-environment-emissions-earth-day-3428646
How does climate change contribute to the lower ground water level?
What are the impacts of lower ground water level on agriculture?
Why is there a need for cultivated meat?
How does cultivated meat help Singapore in achieving food security?
Where are lab grown meat available?
Reducing reliance on land and livestock for meat production help reduce greenhouse gas emission such as methane (animal waste gas) and carbon dioxide (burning of fossil fuel for energy). However, the advanced technology needed to create cultivated meat is also energy intensive.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65784505.amp
How can technology help to improve food production?
Where are the fish farms located in Singapore?
Why is there an increase in the demand for seafood produce?
Singapore firm, Singrow, to grow strawberries in Malaysia and Thailand.
How does this strategy help to increase food security for Singapore?
What are the strengths and limitations of this strategy?
Insects will be approved for human consumption in the second half of 2023.
Why is insect as a source of protein encouraged?
How does food safety affect food consumption?
Picture of packed fried cricket from Thailand. You could soon find it on our supermarket shelf too!
A very good read on NE Forte issue 1 of 2023 on food security in Singapore
https://file.go.gov.sg/neforte2023-1.pdf
Learn how urban farming in Singapore can help us achieve 30%self sufficiency by 2030 (30by30).
How can Singapore achieve our 30 by 30 goal with the use of technologies?
https://foodtank.com/news/2022/12/upcycling-for-hydroponics-in-singapore/
Read the article on
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-farms-kelong-ice-plants-grape-seaweed-3081231
How does high tech farming help to make food production sustainable in Singapore?
Where are the agricultural areas located in Singapore?
Why is it important to develop sustainable food production in Singapore?
Read more about the next-generation kelong, an example of multi-tropic aquaculture, which is a sustainable form of farming that uses the byproducts of one species to grow or feed another. Mussels drink the seawater to produce their biomass, their body; lobsters eat mussels and the sea cucumber at the bottom of the sea feed on the excrement of lobsters and mussels.
According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Bank Group, more than half of all stunted children, almost half of all overweight children and more than two-thirds of all wasted children live in Asia.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theaseanpost.com/article/malnutrition-southeast-asia%3famp
Surprised to read there is stunting in Singapore too.
In Singapore, 2.8 per cent of children aged five or younger in 2020 were stunted, down from 4.4 per cent in 2000.
