Food security

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...

Mr Anesone Tikeri, a process technician at The FoodBowl – part of New Zealand Food Innovation Network (NZFIN) – setting up production at NZFIN’s open-access food innovation facility in New Zealand.
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Future-proofing food security: S’pore and NZ pool resources to spur innovation

Through knowledge sharing and strategic collaboration, the two nations are driving innovative breakthroughs in food science and technology

The Start Strong, Stay Strong programme aims to teach preschool children about nutrition and food circularity.
EVERY DAY, MADE A LITTLE BETTER

More than just putting food on the table

Nutrition counts, and FairPrice is empowering children and families to live healthier lives

The new Bill extends coverage of food safety legislation beyond the sale of food to the “supply” of food, which includes donations and free distribution of food.

Singapore to introduce stockpiling framework, tougher penalties for food safety breaches

The new Food Safety and Security Bill aims to strengthen Singapore’s food safety regime and food security measures