The uncertainties over climate change are prompting researchers here to step up efforts to protect Singapore's food supply, including training plants to thrive in higher temperatures, under artificial lighting and even in sea water.
Such innovation is in response to the looming risk that crop yields could decline by up to a quarter by 2050 due to global warming, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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