Singapore

Singapore Cooperation with Indonesia in Combating the Haze: Mitigating Forest Burning for Cultivation

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT Transboundary haze pollution, which occurs annually, is Southeast Asia’s visible environmental challenge. The haze, which consists of pollutants is caused by several factors, including El Niño weather patterns that occur once a few years, its resulting dry season, the dense peatlands...
Country: Singapore Topic: ForestryEco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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The Development of Singapore’s Koi Aquaculture

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT Some major Singaporean koi breeders specialized in koi dealing (i.e. the mono-culture koi farms) were all founded by hobbyists. They turned their interests into money-making ventures while keeping in touch with the koi-collecting community, global distributors and even Japanese breeders...
Country: Singapore Topic: Fisheries
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Pandemic-era Taiwanese Food Promotion and its Soft Cultural Power Potential in Singapore

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT There is a touch of cosmopolitanism to Taiwanese food cultural soft power. Taiwanese indigenous food and agricultural practices are infused with colonial-era Japanese cuisines, mainland provincial dishes and Italian and American influences. The cultural cross-pollination of global...
Country: Singapore Topic: Agricultural marketing policy
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Rooftop Urban Farming in Singapore: The Iron Triangle of Farmers, Private Sector and Government-Linked Entities

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT Countries reliant on food imports like Singapore were recently affected by the Russo-Ukraine war and the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic as both events increased the prices of staple foods. To mitigate this situation, Singapore’s rooftop farms focused on cultivating mass-consumed...
Country: Singapore Topic: Food security and safety
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Understanding Contemporary Durian Developmental Policy from a Historical Point of View

Tai Wei Lim
ABSTRACT Durian is native and semi-cultivated in continental Southeast Asia in South Tenasserim Lower Burma, and Indo-Chinese countries like Thailand and Vietnam, maritime southern Philippines provinces of Mindanao and Sulu, the Visayas Islands, Luzon Island, and the Malay Archipelago. One of...
Country: Singapore Topic: Overview
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