Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Singapore: "Feeding The Future"

From the Associated Press, November 2023:

The amount of land for agriculture is finite. Nowhere is this more apparent than Singapore, which is trying to produce more of its own food with almost no land. Is this our food future? 

Among the most important things scientists say must happen to reduce the impact of food production on the Earth’s climate and environment: Produce more food using less land.

Singapore — a country with nearly 6 million people and almost no farmland — has long relied on importing nearly all of its food. Now the country is trying to change that.

In 2019 Singapore launched a program called 30 by 30, designed to spur the country to produce 30% of its food by 2030, while still using less than 1% of its land for agriculture....

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