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Does it really matter where our food is grown?
A stable supply through trade is the key to food security in land-scarce Singapore, though local farming has a role to play.
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Singapore must be realistic in view of the trade-offs with more critical and competing uses of land resources.
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Lawrence Loh and Florence Leong
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But it also showed something else that is important: Our food security does not depend on growing everything ourselves. Instead, it depends on whether our supply pipelines stay open, diverse and reliable.
