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Agribusiness / Food in Singapore

  • Singapore And Food Security

    SINGAPORE, 2017/07/08 Food security can be enhanced by strategic initiatives. Land scarce nations can still do much for agriculture and farming with effective policy measures. Singapore has learned to address the multi-faceted challenges of food security with good planning, efficient utilisation of available resources and clear vision for the next. While a lot of analysts have raised concern about feeding the world’s estimated 9.7 billion people by 2050 due to the prospects of supply not conference request, others have refuted this claim on grounds that even today, additional food is produced than is actually consumed or needed. From presently on the problem of hunger is still found in a lot of parts of Asia and Africa. The persistence of hunger reflects the fact that food security is not only about having sufficient quantity of food available, but as well about having physical and economic access to it.
  • Singapore experiments with sky farms

    SINGAPORE, 2012/12/11 With a people of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometers, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to home the country’s a lot of inhabitants. Now, Singapore is applying the vertical model to urban agriculture, experimenting with rooftop gardens and vertical farms in order to feed its a lot of residents.