Food security and safety

Assessment of Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) among Cabbage Consumers in Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory, Myanmar

Youn Lai Khin, Shwe Mar Than, Min Zar Ni Aung, Yee Phyo Mon
ABSTRACT In Myanmar, vegetable production is a major component of food safety strategy. Cabbage is such a vegetable vastly attacked by various kinds of pests. Wide and unsystematic use of pesticides and thus their residues are the main challenge for food safety. Inadequate food safety knowledge...
Country: Myanmar Topic: Food security and safety
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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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Healthy Soils for Resilient Agriculture towards Enhancement of Food Security in Asia

Ganisan Krishnen
ABSTRACT The traditional farming system managed to preserve the soil health and remained resilient for crop production. Introduction of modern agriculture practice, the Green Revolution in  1970s had increased the farm productivity and managed to reduce famine in Asia. Unfortunately,...
Country: Global Topic: Food security and safety
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Ensuring Access and Sustainable Consumption of Safe and Nutrition Foods: Trends in Consumer Behavior and Food Consumption in Myanmar

Thanda Kyi
ABSTRACT Although there have been some essential transformation and improvements made in the industrial and service sectors to some extent, agriculture still remains as the backbone of the Myanmar’s economy contributing to about 22% of its national GDP in 2021. With respect to agricultural land...
Country: Myanmar Topic: Food security and safety
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Promoting Commercialization of Biopesticides and Biofertilizers for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Taiwan

Win-De Huang, Yu-Hsuan Lin
ABSTRACT Sustainable agriculture and food security are important global goals. Therefore, the government amends related policies and accompanying measures to achieve these goals in Taiwan. The government agencies vigorously promote the development and application of bio-pesticides and bio-...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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