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Sorghum as an alternative staple food in Indonesia

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Sorghum as an alternative staple food in Indonesia

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The article mentions about why Indonesia is encouraging its people to switch to another staple food as prices of rice and wheat increase.

For this year's Total Defence Day message, the focus has been on food security in Singapore. Rice is a staple diet for many Singaporeans. However, in times of crises, we cannot assume that there will be enough rice for us to eat.

According to a university professor in Singapore, wheat and potatoes are possible alternatives to rice. Wheat and potato are better for the environment as they require less water to produce the same amount, compared to rice.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapores-imports-thai-rice-easily-met-alternative-sources-climate-change-could-affect-food-security-859626

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- Why is there hunger and food insecurity in a country like Singapore?

- Do you think an unhealthy diet is cheaper than a healthy diet? How would you know?

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SINGAPORE: Singapore's imports of Thai rice can be easily met by alternative sources, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in response to CNA queries about recent reports of severe droughts in Thailand that had affected rice production there.

"Singapore's demand for rice is very small compared to total global rice production. For example, we account for only 1.2 per cent, 1.2 per cent and 0.6 per cent of Thailand, Vietnam and India's total rice exports in 2018 respectively," an MTI spokesman told CNA.

"Over the years, we have been deliberate in our diversification strategy. Besides Thailand, Vietnam and India, we also import rice from Myanmar, Cambodia, Japan and the US. Some of these source countries, such as the US, are less affected by domestic shortages and will alleviate any shortages from other source countries."

According to MTI, the Rice Stockpile Scheme (RSS) ensures an adequate supply of rice in the market during supply disruption, and all white rice, basmati rice, ponni rice and parboiled rice are classified as stockpile-grade rice.

"Importers are required to store two months' worth of imports in government-designated warehouses," said the spokesman.

An NTUC FairPrice spokesman told CNA that socio-economic factors and unfavourable weather conditions have affected supply and prices of rice from Thailand over the past year.

The spokesman said FairPrice has limited the price increase over the past year to about 5 per cent on average, across its range of housebrand rice from Thailand.

"This is due to various strategies such as stockpiling and forward buying to protect consumers from supply and price fluctuations."

NTUC FairPrice also imports rice from Vietnam, India, Australia, USA, Pakistan, Japan and Cambodia, said the spokesman.

The supermarket chain has seen "growing acceptance" from its customers for rice from countries other than Thailand.

"For example, the sales mix for Thai rice had decreased from about 90 per cent 10 years ago compared to about 75 per cent today. Concurrently, we have seen increased popularity of rice from Vietnam, which makes up about 15 per cent of our rice sales today," the spokesman added.

For now, consumers in Singapore can still cope with some price increases because of the country's relatively higher household incomes compared to most other countries, said Professor Paul Teng, adjunct senior fellow of food security in the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University.

But the big threat to Singapore's food security comes when large importing countries like China and Indonesia also suffer shortages in their food (rice) production, he added.

"They will be in the market then to import huge volumes of rice and take up almost all that is available in the marketplace."

Only a small amount of rice, or 7 to 10 per cent of total global production, is traded, so any natural or man-made phenomenon that reduces rice production in main rice exporting countries like India, Vietnam and Thailand has implications, said Prof Teng.

"Importing countries like Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia will all be competing for the reduced amount of rice. The problem is exacerbated if rice crops in the big importing countries like Indonesia and the Philippines are also affected by climate change and production in those countries are also reduced," he added.
FOOD SECURITY VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) noted that the country's food security is vulnerable to global driving forces and trends, such as population growth, rising urbanisation and incomes, disease outbreaks, resource scarcity and increasingly, climate change.

"Singapore imports over 90 per cent of our food. We are exposed to global price and supply fluctuations as well as threats of food supply disruption and food contamination internationally," said an SFA spokesman.

"These vulnerabilities will become more acute overtime; as global crop and fishery yields are estimated to decline with the changing climate."

Citing January 2018 when Malaysia's leafy vegetable production was affected by a monsoon, the spokesman said Singapore's supply of vegetables from Malaysia decreased by about 20 per cent as compared to the same period the year before. According to the SFA, Malaysia supplied about 70 per cent of Singapore's total leafy vegetable import in 2017.

"Nevertheless, there was no significant impact to Singapore as importers have alternative sources like Thailand and China that were not affected by the monsoon to meet local demand and stabilise supply," said the SFA spokesman.

Aside from diversification, the spokesman said SFA also focuses on growing local produce as well as overseas.

"Local production will help mitigate our reliance on imports and serve as a buffer during supply disruptions to import sources. Our agri-food industry needs to transform into one that is highly productive and employs climate-resilient and sustainable technologies," said the spokesman.

"We envisage farming to become more like manufacturing - where production takes place within a controlled environment with a defined input. The result is an assured and consistent output, and a predictable way to address the effects of climate change and extreme weather."

Venturing overseas also opens up new markets and helps local farms overcome land constraints, said the SFA spokesman.

"Produce from local farms, which are established overseas could also be exported back to Singapore, contributing to our food security."

Prof Teng said "time-tested actions" like building stockpiles, diversification, farming overseas and technology-enabled indoor farming of selected food types in Singapore could boost food security.

He noted that the government could put early warning systems for food insecurity based on monitoring and computer modeling, to give Singapore a head start on sourcing for supplies.

"It is also imaginable that indoor farms to enable more community-based farming be supported by the government so that more citizens take ownership of their food security for some food items," he added.

Prof Teng noted that in the longer term, climate change will affect the types of crops and animals that Singapore's traditional food sources can grow, as well as the nutritive value of the exported food.

As for rice, he believes the real problem will surface when total global rice production has decreased due to climate change, but rice consumption continues to increase due to population growth and more people switching to eating rice, away from their traditional foods like taro, maize and plantain.

For alternatives, Prof Teng said wheat and potato are better for the environment as they require less water to produce the same amount, compared to rice.

"In the longer term, while rice remains the preferred staple food for most Singaporeans, it may behoove us to consider reducing our per capita consumption of rice and replace it with more wheat and potato."

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Singapore's imports of Thai rice 'easily met' by alternative sources but climate change could affect food security

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SINGAPORE: Singapore's imports of Thai rice can be easily met by alternative sources, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in response to CNA queries about recent reports of severe droughts in Thailand that had affected rice production there. "Singapore's demand for rice is v

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Naitik Oswal  6D  Opera Estate Primary school

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Naitik Oswal  6D  Opera Estate Primary school

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Rice is a main staple food for the whole world. Before reading this article I could not imagine any other stale food than rice. Through this article I learnt about sorghum. I would definitely eat sorghum as from the article mentioned that sorghum is very healthy and being fit and healthy it is. It is also easier to grow since it does not require to much water and in a draught it can still be produced. Since Ukraine, the largest exporter of wheat in the world, is facing war, the supply of wheat has decreased causing inflation in the prices of wheat.
Singapore does not have the best food security. Singapore's land is scarce so only 10% of the food is locally and the rest is bought from other countries. If other countries stopped selling food to Singapore, we would be in a very big crisis.
Most people think that an unhealthy diet is cheaper as junk food is much cheaper than healthy and nutritious and healthy food. This is true in most of the cases but when people who have an unhealthy diet have to go to the doctor they get shocked at the prices. The sorghum is healthy and isn't that expensive. Sorghum can change the way we live.

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Most of the people in the world eats rice. From Indians ,to Chinese. I learnt more about Sorghum through the article. I eat rice every single day. No matter what, during lunch or dinner at home, there is rice on the dining  table. If it was to save the environment I would obviously be willing to give up rice and start eating Sorghum. Because I the environment to clean for everybody to stay in.

Low income is typically positively correlated with the experience of food insecurity; this report reiterates that income is a persistent factor in food insecurity, with 79% of the reasons cited for food insecurity being centred on financial constraints.

Unhealthy food choices tend to be cheaper. A comprehensive review of 27 studies in 10 countries found that unhealthy food is about $1.50 cheaper per day than healthy food. If you're feeding a large family, it may cost less to simply buy from the dollar menu or purchase cheap premade frozen dinners.

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Eating rice is important for me, it is tasty and is used in many foods. More than eighty percent of the foods we eat in singapore are common with rice such as famous cuisines including chicken rice, nasi lemak, briyani and so much more. If it were to help the environment by me not eating rice, I would be glad to help and give it up. It is not like without rice, I would not survive, there are countless numbers of scrumptious food that does not require rice such as laksa, satay and fish head. I know that Singapore buys food from other countries across the world as we do not have much food supply. If natural disasters happen in other countries that Singapore buys food from, a huge amount of food supply will be decreased, like how Indonesia wants its people to eat less rice and more sorghum as they have extreme weather conditions, both floods and droughts for the past few days. Unhealthy food choices tend to be cheaper than healthy food choices. Many studies show that unhealthy food is $1.50 cheaper than healthy food per day. Although I eat unhealthy food once or twice a week, I would still try to have a healthy diet.

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Samarth Satija 5C Opera Estate Primary School

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Samarth Satija 5C Opera Estate Primary School

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There is hunger in addition to food insecurity in a nation such as Singapore, as Singapore has a lack of access to adequate, safe, and nutritious food. In fact, ranked first in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit as the most food-secure nation on the Global Food Security Index in 2019, it may come as a surprise to many that even in an affluent state like Singapore, food insecurity is until this moment a concern. On top of this, over 105,000 families live in poverty. That is about one in 10 family homes, or 378,000 individuals. This is why the war in Ukraine is an enormous problem in Singapore. Ukraine is one of the biggest wheat suppliers of all nations and now that Ukraine can not supply countries with wheat, it will make wheat much more expensive, causing more hunger and poverty. That is where sorghum comes in. In spite of the fact that not everyone is familiar with sorghum, this cereal grain has been around for centuries. Sorghum belongs to the grass family Poaceae. It is small, round, and usually white or pale yellow,  though some varieties are red, brown, black, or purple. Sorghum is the fifth most produced cereal crop in the world. It's rich in natural nutrients and easy to add to your diet, but its merits don't stop there. It's furthermore widely used as animal feed, and as a natural and cost-effective fuel source. You can cook this grain like quinoa or rice, mill it into flour, or pop it like popcorn. It's also converted into a syrup that's used to sweeten many processed foods. There are a lot of health benefits to eating whole grains like sorghum. In fact, sorghum is known to be rich in phenolic compounds, many of which act as antioxidants. It has also been good at reducing some forms of inflammation due to its antioxidant properties. Several of the phenolic compounds in sorghum have been linked to anti-cancer effects.

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The consumption of rice for me is very important because my healthy plate consists of fruits, grains, vegetables, proteins and dairy. Since rice is part of the grains section, I think rice is important for our healthy diet. However, I would be willing to give up rice, even if it's for a short time to help the environment because I think there is a replacement which is even healthier than rice: sorghum. Sorghum is an excellent replacement as it can grow during droughts, while rice cannot grow during droughts. Sorghum also needs very little water to grow and hence, it is easily grown by farmers. But only a small-scale of farmers grow the food and sorghum is also called peasant's food. What a bad name for sorghum! Sorghum is high in protein, calcium, fibre, vitamins, and minerals such as iron. Being high in fibre means that sorghum can be digested slowly in one's stomach, so it makes one feel full for a much longer time and prevents people from overeating or snacking afterwards. That is why I would be willing to give up rice to help environment.

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The consumption of rice is very important to me.I would give up rice for a short period to help our environment because I can eat other food like pasta, barley, quinoa, Sorghum and also sorghum that has th almost the same nutrients as rice. Recently, I saw a picture on Instagram that showed, someone making an alternative version of nasi lemak.Another reason I would give up on rice for a short period is because that I want to help the environment and try out some new food that has good nutrients in it. In Kenya, people use sorghum as porridge, in China they turn it into alcohol and popped like popcorn in India. All in all I would give up rice for a short period to help our environment.

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I would say that it is very hard for me to give up rice. I use rice a lot because I enjoy it. My mom makes a lot of rice cakes, rice with different types of dal, chicken rice and many more. I think Indian People like rice a lot because we eat it with different types of dal. My mom once tried to make rice cake with cabbage and it tasted weird. I would prefer rice.I do not think i can give up rice but i can try.I hope that the world will not run out of rice bacause i cannot give it up.

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The consumption of rice is very important to me.Rice is my staple food which I eat every day and my life would be different without it. Rice is as well, staple food for South East Asia which people eat every day. For dinner, lunch, along with even special occasions. Giving up rice would depend on what the following staple food is and whether I like it or not, even if it was for the environment. Why? I have to admit that I'm a picky eater and may not like certain foods and tastes. Rice goes very well when prepared in certain ways and I am not sure if I would give up a big part of my diet like that. but I would consider trying sorghum before deciding if I would like to replace it as my staple food. It is also interesting that a prosperous country like Singapore still has food insecurity. but at the same time we are also a small country in southeast Asia so there are many factors that go in it. I think sorghum as the new staple food could be useful even if it's for a short term.

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I enjoy eating rice, but I wouldn't mind changing my diet. Although it will be hard to change my diet, I think it is for the better, because sorghum is like rice. It just costs less. I do not think that we need rice to survive, but a lot of people in Asia eat rice and the majority of people in the world eat rice, so it would take a bit, but I think people may change their diet from rice to sorghum so the poor can afford something to eat. Changing your diet will help the environment and will not cost a lot. I hope the world will change its diets in a few years. If the world changes their diets.

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I enjoy eating rice, but I wouldn't mind changing my diet. Although it will be hard to change my diet, I think it is for the better, because sorghum is like rice. It just costs less. I do not think that we need rice to survive, but a lot of people in Asia eat rice and the majority of people in the world eat rice, so it would take a bit, but I think people may change their diet from rice to sorghum so the poor can afford something to eat. Changing your diet will help the environment and will not cost a lot. I hope the world will change its diets in a few years. If the world changes their diets.

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Imraah Solehah 5C Opera Estate Primary School

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Indonesia want thier people to eat less rice as they have lake of resources to make more rice. Because of the floods and droughts.Therefore they use sorghum as a replacement but since they are made in low farm sources they have a bad name they are called peasant food because of this problem people think that people who eat this are poor .Either way thier still encourage the people. Countries like Singapore does not have much food insecurity as Singapore works very hard to give food to us and that's why we cant waste food, people in other countries are struggling because of food insecurity so don't waste food no matter what but if you cant finish your food maybe share if their comfortable. An unhealthy diet does not mean it more expensive it just means its a bit more expensive then a healthy diet healthy diet could be like...I don't know like a few dollars cheaper. Healthy diets are cheaper as the vegetables and fruits are cheaper and unhealthy could be in fancy restaurant fast food restaurants.

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Personally, the consumption of rice is very important to me as I like rice a lot. If there is a need, I will be ready to give up eating rice for the wellbeing of the environment for a short period of time. During this period, I can consume other foods. Some examples include rye, oat, proso, barley, quinoa, etc. I would consume sorghum, as it can grow in harsh conditions. Sorghum is quite good for health. It can be turned into a lot of things. In Kenya, sorghum is eaten as porridge and in China, sorghum turned into drinking alcohol. In India, it is popped like popcorn. Sorghum has a lot of uses and is a part of people's diets all around the world. Sadly, around the world, sorghum has a bad name just because it is grown and eaten by small-scale farmers. The grain is considered by many to be food for peasants who cannot afford anything else. This problem is now being overcomed in Indonesia. Its government is urging farmers to grow sorghum to reduce the country's reliance on rice and wheat. In Indonesia, there are mostly droughts or too much rain, so there is difficulty growing rice and wheat there.

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Rice is one of my family's staple foods. Without it, my sister would be really sad as it is one of her favourite foods. Me, however, I am not that attached to this savoury dish, but nonetheless, I would miss the it. I eat it very regularly so it would be hard for me to let go of it. I think that rice is a staple food in aisa, let alone singapore. It would be a food crisis around the world if we all had to give up this multi grain dish. Lots of cultures around the world eat rice as the base of their diet. When I think about the world letting go of rice, i am met with the situation being impossible.

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I enjoy eating rice, but I wouldn't mind changing my diet. Although it will be hard to change my diet, I think it is for the better,because sorghum is like rice. It just costs less. I do not think that we need rice to survive, but a lot of people in Asia eat rice and the majority of people in the world eat rice, so it would take a bit, but I think people may change their diet from rice to sorghum so the poor can afford something to eat. Changing your diet will help the environment and will not cost a lot. I hope the world will change its diets in a few years.If the world changes their diets.

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yes,i think that the consumption of rice is very important to me.Yes i would be willing to give up rice for a short term to help our envirement cause it is ramadan and im fasting so i dont need food.but if im not fasting then NO! cause i really love my rice and i cant live without nasi lemak as it is one of my favourite dish Even tho most people would say yes i cannot live without rice even tho if i only need to not eat it for a short period of time.

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I love rice as it is a staple food for me and I eat it every day. I will never leave it even if prices or GST rises, it will stay with me. Rice is an important diet for me as it is the only food that I eat which is healthy. Rice is a staple food in Asia. My favourite food is rice and cottage cheese and gravy. Whenever I eat this dish which in India is called rice and paneer my mouth waters.

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Rice is something i have daily. If I had to have sorghum. It would be difficult to adjust, but anything to save food! I usually have rice with delicious side dishes. I would try sorghum even though I don't know much about it. Although it is labeled as a peasant's food, if it satisfies my diet, it will help me. Rice is expensive so it is good to have sorghum. Other than rice I would have bread and Indian traditional foods. Over All I would say sorghum is an excellent alternative to rice. I recommend to have rice with fried cauliflower as it is the best. Thank you!

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Rice consumption is without a doubt significant to me.Yet being asked if I would give up rice, even if it's for a short term, to help our environment, I, for one, without hesitation, will delightedly do so.Even though rice is and always has been a large part of my life, or the environment i will unquestionably give it up owing to the fact that my comfort together with my wants are not as important as our precious environment, the sole reason that i am until now thriving as a human. And yes, I also eat rice because I am proudly Asian. In my opinion, an unhealthy diet would actually be more costly than a healthy one. This is because a Big Mac from McDonalds would probably be more expensive than a salad, which you can actually make at home yourself free of charge. (besides the cost of the ingredients itself).In conclusion, i think what Indonesia is doing certainly is working and it should happen worldwide.

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Yes,I think that an unhealthy diet is cheaper than a healthy diet because compared to a healthy diet of  vegetables, fruits and grain.this is because fast food and snacks are cheaper and more satisfactory than fruits and vegetables. For example, I know a lot of people who would rather like to eat sugary food and drinks to bread and milk. furthermore , fast food branches like KFC and Macdonald's sell way cheaper food compared to normal restaurants that sell food with below average nutrition. so this is why in a blink of an eye, it is simplistic to know that to lead a healthy lifestyle ,you need to be rich. In a nutshell, I think that it is good to strike a healthy balance between unhealthy and healthy food and exercise regularly, and would like to encourage people to maintain a healthy and balanced diet.

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I like to eat rice and would not ever take rice out of my diet. I like to eat rice with Malay dishes. Rice is always on my diet and I would not live without rice. I also like to eat bread-based things, but I would never eat sorghum. It sounds disgusting and I would never in my life eat it. That means Indonesians are okay with anything just to be healthy. Rice is basically my staple food. I would be willing to give up rice for a short term because there are many other alternatives such as couscous and bread. There is hunger and food insecurity in Singapore because many people like to waste food, so a lot of food goes to waste. People think they can just waste food like that because they think that they have a lot of money and they can buy more food.

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Arya Ishana 5H Opera Estate Primary School

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Arya Ishana 5H Opera Estate Primary School

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Rice is very important to me. It is one the main foods that people around the world, of different religions, eat. I think that I would be willing to give up rice, even for a short term,  to help the environment. Because rice is not the only thing I have to/can eat. There are many other things to eat. Like noodles. And maybe instead of rice, I could eat sorghum. So, I would be willing to give rice.

As a small island nation, Singapore lacks natural resources. It imports more than 90% of its food from more than 170 countries and regions. The reality is that about 10% of Singaporean households (citizens and/or permanent residents) in this nationally representative study of close to 1,200 surveyed households experienced food insecurity at least once in the last 12 months. Low income is typically positively correlated with the experience of food insecurity; this report reiterates that income is a persistent factor in food insecurity, with 79% of the reasons cited for food insecurity being centred on financial constraints.

I think that a unhealthy diet is much cheaper than a healthy diet. Because healthy diet sometimes involves lots of vegetables and most likely organic ones. And when it comes to organic food, prices increase a LOT. Compared to an unhealthy diet which will most likely/sometimes involve fast food which have no nutrients or iron to keep your body healthy and fit while a healthy diet does. I know because if you go to any supermarket, buy an organic vegetable and compare it to a burger from a fast food restaurant, the prices will very much differ.

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Ryan Chaubey 5I Opera Estate Primary School

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Ryan Chaubey 5I Opera Estate Primary School

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In my opinion, I think that rice is very important for most people.  Through the article, I learnt about Sorghum. I would eat Sorghum as the article states that Sorghum is easier to grow, a more sustainable source of food, and it is healthier. With the current war between Ukraine and Russia I am certain that rice will run out as Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest producers of wheat. Singapore’s land is very scarce and only 10% of food in Singapore is grown locally. This is a problem and I feel that Singapore’s food is not secure. All in all, I would eat Sorghum over rice.

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Rice is absolutely important to me.I eat rice almost every meal.Other than Instant Noodles and Egg,Rice is third quickest food to cook.If I cannot eat rice for a certain period of time,I think I food be okay as there are plenty more options to eat.For me,It will be a hard time to stop eating rice as It is one of Singapore’s staple food.There is hunger and food insecurity in countries like Singapore as Singapore is a small country and it will be challenging to produce food made in Singapore.In my opinion,unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food.For example,for,Instant Noodles is much cheaper than a vegetable soup.

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Rice is a staple food, almost everybody eats or have eaten rice. There are many types of rice, like brown rice, plain rice, etc… Rice is eaten with a varieties of things, people also eat it with sugar, and any other liquid object that is edible. It is eaten as a porridge in Kenya, turned into drinking alcohol in China, and popped like popcorn in India. This is sorghum, an ancient grain with many uses, and a part of people’s diet around the world. But sorghum also has a bad name. Just because it is grown and eaten by small-scale farmer, the grain is considered by many to be food for peasants who can’t afford anything else. A few important grass cereal grain crops eaten around the world are rye, rice, oat, proso, barley, quinoa, wheat, corn, buckwheat, sorghum and millet.

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It is important for me to eat rice, I have rice every day. But I would  still give up rice to save the environment for not more than a week. This is because rice is in low supply and very expensive it is also hard to grow when there are floods or droughts.I could eat other food such as ,spaghetti ,  tacos or noodle soup . Maybe even sorghum!

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I think a unhealthy diet is more expensive than a healthy diet.
If you go to a supermarket and buy vegetables, it only costs a few cents. But if you buy fast foods, it costs more than ten dollars. That is why I think unhealthy food are more expensive than healthy food.

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Even though I  enjoy eating rice, I still would give up eating rice for  the environment. If we do not help save the environment now , then there will be a problem in living in future  in my opinion we can still eat different types of food which tastes the same .One way to save  rice is to try and stop the Ukrainian war .There was once when I had none of my rice or wholegrain bread left but I kept patient  and a solution.

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No matter what, I would always have rice for lunch,dinner or both. If I had to give up rice for a short term, I would give it up. I take opportunities to try new things like sorghum. I could eat sorghum as a snack. During COVID-19, I had to abandon rice for the time-being. This concludes on how important rice is and will   I abandon it.

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I don’t think Singapore has the best food security out there. Most of the food that is served on our tables are imported to Singapore from other countries, but now due to reasons like the Russia-Ukrain war and global warming the amount of crops and food have been affected drastically.Singapore at the moment is  aiming to produce 30% of our food locally but we are still relying on other countries for 70% of our food.So if any world crisis breaks out we would be in deep trouble thats why we should not waste our food either.

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I think a unhealthy diet is not cheaper but more expensive than a healthy diet. I think I can tell by checking price. Here is an example: some vegatables have as much vitamins as the vitamin gummies. However, the gummies are like thirty dollars but the vetagables are like only around two to five dollars. Therefore I think an unhealthy diet is more expensive than a healthy diet. Thank you for reading!

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I think it is good that the government is initiating this but I don’t agree Because rice goes well with everything so I would not take that out of my diet but I would give it a try to see

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No I would not give up rice not even for a day because I eat it every day and it is awesome in every way .therefore I will never give up rice.

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I disagree as healthy food is cheaper and better for you as you can just buy seeds to plant your own and we can just spend a little bit of money to buy sauces like coleslaw sauce and thousand island sauce however unhealthy food can be way more expensive and bad for your body as a lot of unhealthy food have a lot of sugar.

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I think that rice is very important to me because a lot of my traditional food made of rice and I think I eat rice almost everyday.But if some countries can no longer afford rice ,then I would be willing and to give up rice because we should support other countries.Instead of rice we can eat fruits ,vegetables and other types of wheat.

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An unhealthy diet is usually cheaper than a healthy diet because healthy food are usually hard to grow and need a lot of time but unhealthy food are easier to make as they take lesser time and money.

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For me, my consumption of rice is as important as exercising daily. I eat rice twice a week along with “dal” (Indian curry). It supports my daily growth and fitness. I would not be able to give it up even for two or three days because I would miss it’s ability to soak up rich flavours. I don’t think sorghum would be able to do the same. So, I don’t think I would be able to give up rice.

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For me, my consumption of rice is as important as exercising daily. I eat rice twice a week along with “dal” (Indian curry). It supports my daily growth and fitness. I would not be able to give it up even for two or three days because I would miss it’s ability to soak up rich flavours. I don’t think sorghum would be able to do the same. So, I don’t think I would be able to give up rice.

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Ria Sarda 5I

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Uthman ,I think an unhealthy diet is chaper as an example macdonald every thing is so cheap and in super markets it is more expensive to get like organic fruits and veggies ans olive oil is more expensive the vegetable oil 

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Uthman ,I think an unhealthy diet is chaper as an example macdonald every thing is so cheap and in super markets it is more expensive to get like organic fruits and veggies ans olive oil is more expensive the vegetable oil 

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Yes, if it means that it will help our environment and anyways I prefer not to eat too much rice .

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Chua jing xu primary5 opera estate primary school

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Chua jing xu primary5 opera estate primary school

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I think sorghum is good and bad in many ways.The good thing about sorghum is that the people that farm it will have a easier time farming it and sorghum is healthy.The bad thing is that we are used to rice and sorghum is new to us so it will take a long time to get used to sorghum.

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Maverick Ng 5I Opera Estate Primary School

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Maverick Ng 5I Opera Estate Primary School

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I think that rice is important to me and that I will be willing to give up rice even for a short term and I will change to sorghum because it is easier to get sorghum and it is very hard to get rice now a days so I will willing to eat sorghum for a short term

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I love Eating rice but if it was for the environment

I would stop eating rice.
My dad used to buy rice but since there are not much rice,
My father stopped buying rice,

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Rice consumption is not that important to me.If giving up rice would help the environment I would give up rice. I understand that because of the earthquakes and floods Indonesia is not able to grow rice and wheat. I am willing to help the environment. I would probably eat rice once in a while. I am not willing to eat sorghum but I am willing to help the environment

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I don’t like rice so I would like no rice for some time.

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