Food security

Singapore’s revised food targets prioritise scalable, efficient production

Details on support schemes for farmers will be announced at MSE’s upcoming Committee of Supply debate

Greenphyto founder and CEO Susan Chong (right) speaking during a tour of the farm. With her at its official opening are guest of honour President Tharman Shanmugaratnam (left), Minister of Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu (second from left) and the ministry's Senior Minister of State Zaqy Mohamad (second from right); Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Desmond Tan is fifth from left.

Singapore food output gets S$80 million boost with opening of Greenphyto’s vertical farm, tallest in the world

With growing chambers at 23 metres tall, the facility has an output 45 times higher than traditional farming methods

The event features more than 10 local farms that showcased their local produce to interested restaurants and brands.
TAKING HEART

RWS partners Kranji Countryside Association to support local farmers

The resort operator provides a platform for Singapore-based farms to raise awareness about produce grown here

Edible community gardens, allotment plots, care farms and rooftop food forests show that small-scale, community-based models can be both productive and restorative.

After 30-by-30: Singapore’s regenerative food story

Our next chapter must shift from security to sovereignty, yield to healing

Bjorn Low, chief urban farmer and co-founder of Edible Garden City, helped legitimise urban agriculture in Singapore.
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‘Moderator in nature’: Edible Garden City’s Bjorn Low wants to sow green ideas that will outlast him

A plan to lead ‘a simple life’ has sprouted into a 41-strong social enterprise building edible gardens across Singapore

Vietnam developed and commercialised two homegrown vaccines in 2023 – the world’s first for the viral and deadly African Swine Fever.

Swine fever surge in Vietnam highlights opportunities for industrial pork producers

African Swine Fever has resurged largely among smallholder farms with low uptake of Vietnam’s domestic vaccines

Tthe vault has received samples from across the world, and played a leading role between 2015 and 2019 in rebuilding seed collections damaged during the war in Syria.

Arctic doomsday seed vault gets more than 14,000 new samples

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming

Community Shop @ Chong Pang is the charity’s fifth such shop in Singapore, providing essential food items to lower-income families.
TAKING HEART

Food From The Heart launches fifth community shop in Yishun with support from BNP Paribas

Beneficiaries can choose essential food items to bring home for free, contrasting traditional aid, in which they are given food

Vietnam has been exporting lobsters to China since at least 2000, the trade peaked in 2020 when Beijing banned imports from Australia.

China is scouring the globe in search of new food suppliers

CHINA’S quest to feed itself has taken it as far as Kenya’s macadamia nut groves and Bolivia’s cattle ranches, as part of a push in recent years to diversify food sources away from traditional Western...