Small island states have features in common which make it difficult for them to assure food security through self-production, notably limited land, fresh water and labour. As these island states grow economically, diet diversification by an increasingly affluent population demands a balance between food imports and self-production. Singapore, a wealthy, small island state has consistently been ranked high in food security in international comparisons, but only under conditions when trade is uninhibited and countries do not reduce food exports. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown vulnerabilities in the country’s “Resilience” strategy to maintain food security through importing over 90% of its food needs from over 170 countries. Leading up to and during the pandemic, strategic policy initiatives were announced by the government and new measures were taken to increase the stability of imports, ramp up production from existing farms, increase self-production by 300% by 2030 through increasing the number of high technology urban vegetable and fish farms, and factory-cultured food, and reducing food waste. Singapore offers lessons for other small island states in ways to improve their food security.

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确保新加坡这个面临 COVID-19 的小岛国的粮食安全

小岛国的共同特点使它们难以通过自我生产来确保粮食安全，特别是有限的土地、淡水和劳动力。随着这些岛国的经济增长，日益富裕的人口带来的饮食多样化需要在粮食进口和自产之间取得平衡。新加坡是一个富裕的小岛国，在国际比较中一直在粮食安全方面名列前茅，但前提是贸易不受限制且各国不减少粮食出口。COVID-19 大流行表明该国通过从 170 多个国家进口超过 90% 的粮食需求来维持粮食安全的“复原力”战略存在漏洞。在大流行之前和期间，政府宣布了战略性政策举措，并采取了新的措施来增加进口的稳定性，提高现有农场的产量，通过增加高科技城市蔬菜和鱼类养殖场的数量，到 2030 年将自产率提高 300%，以及工厂培养的食物，并减少食物浪费。新加坡为其他小岛国提供了改善粮食安全的经验教训。