Madeline shared on the food video project w her students refer to video and resource on site.
Introducing the new geog curriculum concept.
Display by SFA
SFA (Singapore food agency) ensure supply of food and food security. It was combined from AVA and NEA and HSA (health science authority) food testing labs.
Urbanisation, competing land use, lack of farm workers, increasing population growth as well as competing use of energy and water w agricultural land use can all pose challenges to food security.
Food security risk as food contamination can occur from production to factory processing to hawkers.
What is food security?
only 1% of Singapore's land is used for agriculture.
In 1999 there was a virus outbreak which disrupted supply of fresh pork
2003 SARS outbreak Pasir Panjang wholesale Centre some workers were quarantined so vegetable supply disrupted. closed for 15 days.
Bird flu in China from end of 2013 to 2014 near CNY.
Prices go up when food supply disrupted disruption of onion supply from India. government ban as insufficient supply due to delayed monsoon, flood etc onion from egypt, turkey, china etc tough for bangladesh
Malaysia prohibited export fish and eggs jan to feb in 2018.
3 Food baskets
1.Diversify import sources. reduce risk of reliance on any one supply source e.g. eggs from Ukarine, New Zealand majority from Malaysia andSingapore farm
2. Grow local. helps mitigate our reliance on imports and serves as a buffer 0. grow overseas. support our companies to expand and grow overseas   e.g. Apple from South Africa  use less to produce more   ambitious target 20 to 30% not possible to be 100% self sufficient. Back to planning ~agricultural land cluster at yio chu kang coastal lim chu kang, changi. Citiponics on roof top of multi storey carpark @AMK brand leaf well commercial farm utilizing space Elderly from nearby home only work in early hour of morning. transplanting or harvesting involve the community. Certain portion donated to the home sky green vertical farms. sunlight indoor controlled environment. water, nutrients etc 
St John island R&D sea bass 20% bigger
Meat based diet requires a lot of land and cattle release a lot of methane, a greenhouse gas Science base using technology to help grow plants and fish  grow overseas  how can we support? 
3. Growing overseas. Singapore help in the setup pig farms in China Prime mahkota brand fr China, local fish farm
Q&A
4th basket national stockpile?
Singapore works with ASEAN countries controls of export or imports e.g. FAO representation diff guidelines for diff countries e.g. some relevant only to EU. NTUC fairprice carry the largest local grown food widest vegetable range comcrop, panasonic salad, mushroom, fish from Apollo. Pasar NTUC housebrand can be fr Malaysia etc which they would put the country of origin how is local farmer supported in terms of price? freshness, sustainability (support local), safe as random check by SFA.
Challenges in relocating the farms e.g. MINDEF taking back the land, some tradeoff when new land is released it is based on best concept rather than just price if the land is not as productive and lease is up, it will be given to a more productive purpose agricultural productivity fund. Farmer can apply the grant to invest in equipment or technology which can increase productivity 50 to 60% e.g. sensor to monitoring , cut on need for 24 hour manpower
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