Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Sustainable Aqua Farms in Taiwan

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT With more plastics in the oceans than fishes in the future, this dire prediction has highlighted the destruction of nature by the marine fishing industry. Yet, human demand for such marine products is insatiable and continues to grow. With the emergence of large developing economies and...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Fisheries
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Singapore’s Food Supply from Riau Archipelago

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT Cooperation between Singapore and Indonesia has extended to the agricultural sector, beyond just industrial park collaboration between the two countries. One of these schemes is the Riau Vegetable Project importing green vegetables from Indonesia (including the nearest Indonesian...
Country: Singapore Topic: Overview
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326

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Becomes the Thriving Accelerator for the Smart Agriculture

Yu-Hsuan Yang, Chih-Yuan Chang, Chang-Tsern Chen, Jyh-Rong Tsay
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic era, the behaviors and patterns of agricultural production have changed enormously. Labor shortages and supply chain interruption caused trouble to agricultural operations. Furthermore, how the tasks of smart agriculture affected by the...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Overview
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Technologies in Singapore’s High Tech Kranji Farms

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT In the past, Singapore had an agrarian economic sector, but over time, the traditional farmlands in villages transformed into urbanized areas, leaving only a sliver of land use in Kranji for high tech agriculture. Even the Kranji farming landscape over time transformed into multistoried...
Country: Singapore Topic: Agricultural science policies
1,878
213

The Food System - Concept, Aims and Application Potential in Vietnam

Pham Hai Vu, Dao The Anh
ABSTRACT This paper reviews the scientific literature over the concept of food system. The food system is built from 4 components: farming; food processing; food distribution and consumption. The market of agro-food products is not perfect. A systemic approach allows to observe its failures. In...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Food security and safety
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