Increasing food security: Linking sustainable food waste management and food systems
An interdisciplinary team of scientists and urban designers led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), in collaboration with ETH Zurich and the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore), aims to develop a blueprint to integrate food waste management and sustainable food production in urban settings like Singapore using tropical black soldier flies.
The three-year research project is led by Assistant Professor Nalini Puniamoorthy from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences and Professor Stephen Cairns from the SEC’s Future Cities Lab Global programme. The project brings together local and international scientists, urban designers, as well as industrial collaborators from waste management and animal nutrition, to integrate food waste into a fully circular bio-economic food production system for cities using black soldier flies.
The core team also consists of Singapore and Swiss-based researchers, including Assistant Professor Alexander Mathys and Dr Moritz Gold from the ETH Zurich Sustainable Food Processing Group; Associate Professor Roman Carrasco from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences; Dr Liu Mei Hui from the NUS Department of Food Science and Technology; and Assistant Professor Janice Lee and Assistant Professor Joyce Ong from the NTU Singapore Asian School of the Environment.
Increasing food security: Linking sustainable food waste management and food systems
