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At the 19th Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution in Kuala Lumpur this week, ASEAN reiterated its commitment to a haze-free region by 2020. Could a long-term solution to preventing forest fires in Southeast Asia lie in alternative commodities that can grow in wet peatlands?

The agri-food industry offers a bright future for the youth, in Singapore and abroad, amid discouraging youth employment prospects globally.

The recent announcements in Parliament to raise Singapore's food self-production level from the current 10% to 30% of total food needs by 2030, the "30 by 30" strategy, have raised some pertinent questions on capacity, investment and exportability.

To bridge funding gaps in humanitarian assistance, states will need to re-examine their roles, relative to the private sector. Humanitarian technologies offer a potential high-volume, low-profit margin sector which can be an entry point for private companies.

Singapore signalled strong support for its urban farming industry by tendering 24 hectares of land for high-productivity vegetable farms in 2017. Foresighted action is now needed to reduce risk to leafy vegetable producers and to fulfil the sector's commercial potential. Can it be a future regional centre for urban food production?