On 13 December, during Singapore Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu’s official visit to Brunei’s Golden Chick Livestock Farm, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced the accreditation of Brunei as the new source of chicken egg export to Singapore
Livestock
ADB sanctions multi-million dollar loan to upgrade Indonesia’s shrimp farming sector

About 5,200 smallholder farmers, including more than 1,000 women farmers, will benefit from improved infrastructure and capacity. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$93mn loan to enhance shrimp farming by smallholder farmers in seven provinces in Indonesia
Promoting transparency and verifiable performance

ASC believes that key stakeholders, governments, financial institutions, and investors will increasingly require that SDG performance is third-party audited and transparent, to provide high quality data assurance. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has released a report that looks at how responsible aquaculture can contribute to the United Nation’s (UN’s) 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and also develops a methodology to quantify how ASC verifiably contributes to these goals
SFA and INVE Aquaculture sign MOU to develop hatchery technology centre
On 30 November, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and INVE Aquaculture, a benchmark company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly set up SFA-INVE Hatchery Technology Centre at SFA’s Marine Aquaculture Centre (MAC)
Local supply shortage prompts Malaysia to rely on overseas egg imports
A short-term scarcity of Malaysia’s popular protein source has prompted the country to temporarily rely on overseas imports