How Climate Change Can Threaten Food Production in Singapore

Channel NewsAsia

19 December 2020

While some cheer the cool weather when storms hit Singapore, 40-year-old farmer Chai Nian Kun says to himself: “Jialat” – an expression of concern over what is to come. Heavy rain is not uncommon in tropical Singapore. Climate change – expressed here through hotter temperatures, more rainfall and rising sea levels – is putting local food production under stress in many different ways, experts said. It is a pressing concern, they added, especially in light of the island’s ambitions to strengthen its food security. Such trends will come to affect the way Singapore produces food – be it eggs, vegetables or fish, in outdoor or indoor farms, according to Professor Paul Teng, Adjunct Senior Fellow at RSIS

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