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SINGAPORE: When the “30 by 30” goal was announced in April 2019, no one could have anticipated how Singapore’s food security would be on everyone’s minds barely a year later - when the ...
SINGAPORE – For an import-dependent country like Singapore, which brings in most of its food, safeguarding food security is an existential concern. Worsening climate impacts and geopolitical ...
The republic is reviewing its food security strategy to better tackle productivity, cost and demand challenges, as well as to foster the sector’s continued growth, said Koh. He had first suggested ...
The recent announcements in Parliament to raise Singapore’s food self-production level from the current 10 per cent to 30 per cent of total food needs by 2030, the “30 by 30” strategy, have ...
Mr McGuinn of Atlas Aquaculture said that food security requires “everything from start to finish, and there’s none of that” in Singapore. “Even if we grow 30 per cent (of nutritional ...
SFA’s statistics are for food production. Yet the “30 by 30” goal is for “nutritional needs” – and the definition of this has been blurry, noted William Chen, director of Nanyang Technological ...
The challenges facing Singapore's agriculture sector — which have led in a dip in local production of vegetables and seafood — reflect a transitional phase for local farms, a food security ...
In 2019, Singapore declared it was aiming to produce 30% of its nutritional needs by 2030 instead of the current model where 90% of food is imports, and food security expert Paul Teng said insects ...
Achieving the ‘30 by 30’ target. Dubbed the ‘30 by 30’ goal, Singapore has plans to produce 30 per cent of its food supply by 2030. If it succeeds, this move will help build a more resilient nation.
Fish farms are dwindling in numbers too, even as the resource-scarce country inches toward the deadline for its "30 by 30" goal — an initiative set by the Singapore government to be able to ...