Gov’t awards $40m to 12 projects to accelerate food innovation

The projects were identified through three different grant programmes.

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has awarded $40m to 12 projects under the second phase of the Singapore Food Story (SFS) R&D Programme to accelerate food innovation in urban agriculture, aquaculture, future foods and food safety.

The projects were selected through three different grant programmes; the Seed Grant Call which supports early-stage R&D, Research Translation Grant Call which supports translational R&D focused on demonstrating commercialisation potential, and the Future Foods Grant Call which focuses on cost reduction and process improvement.

Of the projects awarded, two were under Seed grant call, five under Research Translation grant call and four under Future Foods grant call. In addition, a programme on indoor farming systems launched earlier this year by the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), with Wageningen University and Research, and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), was also awarded.

The projects involved include research on developing genetic tools to produce more vegetables indoors, a proposal focused on managing aquatic diseases and research to develop cost-effective cell media solutions and scalable manufacturing processes to lower the costs of producing cultured meat products.

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