Study by Lien Centre for Social Innovation: 20% of those living in small housing do have food security

SMU’s Lien Centre for Social Innovation worked with 35 food support organisations in a first-of-its-kind study to understand their services and perspectives on food insecurity in Singapore. The study found that despite Singapore ranking as the world’s fourth most food-secure nation on the Global Food Security Index, a substantial percentage of the participants experienced moderate to severe food insecurity, which is defined as people not having or not confident of having access to sufficient and nutritious food for a healthy lifestyle. The Lien Centre hosted its first Food Justice “Impacthon” last weekend to gather like-minded people, and facilitate the ideation of better solutions to combat food wastage. SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business undergraduate Kuah Chiew Shian, an Impacthon participant, described how she had witnessed food being dumped due to aesthetic reasons when she worked in F&B establishments and how she would like to help businesses to mitigate food wastage.