Commentary: Is lab-grown meat a new frontier or a passing fad?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY PAUL TENG SINGAPORE: This week, Singapore made global headlines by being the first country in the world to approve a lab-grown meat for general public consumption. Eat Just, a San Francisco-based company, will soon debut its “chicken bites” here, which feature meat developed from animal cells in laboratories. This comes on the heels of recent news […]
Disruptive technologies are changing Asian agriculture
Reading Time: 5 minutesAGRICULTURE has historically depended on disruptive discoveries and innovations to make big strides. With the re-discovery of Mendel’s laws, modern plant breeding started to produce new crop varieties with higher potential yield in the twentieth century and hybrid seed became the major driver of increases in maize yield in the USA. Indeed, maize yield increased […]
Enabling a successful AgriFood Innovation Park in Singapore: What should it focus on?
Reading Time: 7 minutesBY PAUL TENG, ANDREW POWELL AND ROB HULME Background The success in growing an agrifood sector is considerably improved when supported by one or more agrifood innovation parks (AFIPs) judging from experience in countries such as Taiwan and The Netherlands. Singapore has announced that it intends to develop a new 18ha Agri-Food Innovation Park in […]
Is Singapore’s decades-long shift away from agriculture about to take a U-turn?
Reading Time: 6 minutesSINGAPORE has gone through such spectacular changes in its bicentennial history that today’s visitors to the country may be forgiven if they think it has always been a glitzy concrete shopping paradise and financial hub. It was only at the turn of the 19th century that Singapore grew, exported and traded in gambier, nutmeg, cinnamon, […]