Food security

BEHIND THE NAME

Next gen steers Vietnam’s US$1 billion sugar empire to go global – starting with three-person Singapore office

Chairwoman Dang Huynh Uc My is determined that sugar alone will not define AgriS’ future

A corn field in Indiana in the US. Yield growth for the three main cereals – corn, rice and wheat – has nearly flatlined over the past five years.

World’s food security is facing a triple threat

Humanity’s risk of starvation is going up with falling crop yields, strained water supplies and restrictive food trade

Under the new framework, the Republic aims to produce 20% of its fibre consumption by 2035 – covering leafy and fruited vegetables, bean sprouts and mushrooms.

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.
IMPACT LEADER OF THE YEAR (INDIVIDUAL)

‘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