Question 1

The total volume of rain has been bigger, but the total duration has also been shorter. That obviously means it has more intensity, leading to a greater frequency of urban flooding.

Today, the average sea level around the island today is 14cm above pre-1970 levels, said the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) in March this year in its annual climate assessment.

Such trends will come to affect the way Singapore produces food – be it eggs, vegetables or fish, in outdoor or indoor farms, according to Professor Paul Teng, an adjunct senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.”

• Compare the impact of climate change on traditional farming relative to high-tech farming in Singapore, and describe the strategies that each farming method can implement to mitigate such impact.
• Illustrate the extent to which growing food locally helps make Singapore’s food system more sustainable.