Food security and safety

Trade Liberalization in ASEAN and its Impacts on Malaysia’s Food Security

Rozhan Abu Dardak, Nik Rozana Nik Mohamad Masdek
ABSTRACT Malaysia has always been a trading nation. Strategically located along the Straits of Malacca, it sits on a major shipping channel that connects the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Malaysia recognizes the importance of international trade and relations to the...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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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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