Top Singapore sustainability technology company SGP Foods advocates sustainability and carbon crediting for food production and the environment

SINGAPORE, Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With its innovative technologies, SGP Foods is a global leader in agriculture sustainability, CO₂ emissions reduction, and carbon credit utilisation.

From left: Using IoT technology, SGP Foods' VertiStacks vertical farming solution helps farmers save on water, fertiliser, labour, and land. Pek Yun Ning, Chairman, CEO, and Founder of SGP Foods.
From left: Using IoT technology, SGP Foods' VertiStacks vertical farming solution helps farmers save on water, fertiliser, labour, and land. Pek Yun Ning, Chairman, CEO, and Founder of SGP Foods.

In January 2023, researchers from the Centre for Climate Research Singapore warned that warming temperatures could rise by up to 5°C over the next century, resulting in scorching heat, severe storms, harsh dry spells, and suffocating pollution.

As polar ice caps melt, deforestation increases, and sea levels rise, the whole world will also face health problems due to contaminated water, according to the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (British Columbia).

Pek Yun Ning, Chairman, CEO, and Founder of SGP Foods (www.sgpfoods.com), Singapore's best-performing technology company, understands that change is imperative. "Our survival as a species depends on protecting our natural environment."

As Pek attended a Silicon Valley "blockchain for good" event, she met Jonah Crawford, later SGP Foods' CTO and Co-Founder, who shared her views on food security and the water, energy, and food nexus. The ideator, strategist, and manager immediately identified ways to improve Singapore's food security. "We tested our ideas for achieving sustainability in Singapore and with our regional partners."

Tracking emissions from commodities, processing, and logistics, SGP Foods was incorporated in Singapore in April 2020 to combat the effects of climate change and ensure food security – two of humanity's greatest challenges. Its green logistics digital infrastructural approach incorporates plant-based protein additives, deforestation-free cooking oils, low-emission eggs, and high-intensity vegetable production. To track emissions, it uses proprietary agriculture and resource optimisation technologies.

Allied Food Crops supply seed meal to bakeries and noodle makers, seed oils that replace soy, cottonseed, and olive oils; for cosmetics, soap, and chocolates, as well as fibres for livestock feed, building materials - and more.
Allied Food Crops supply seed meal to bakeries and noodle makers, seed oils that replace soy, cottonseed, and olive oils; for cosmetics, soap, and chocolates, as well as fibres for livestock feed, building materials - and more.

SGP Foods has also collaborated with SUTD, Temasek Polytechnic, and ITE on food and climate matters. Additionally, by partnering with various global industry changemakers, it assists decision-makers in improving resource capabilities and organisational performance.

The Singapore SME 500 Award winner in 2022 and Singapore Trusted Enterprise Award winner in 2023 started with VertiStacks, a vertical farming system for countries such as Singapore, the United States, China and India. IoT technology allows for successful indoor and outdoor harvesting, and the customisability of plant species and growth methods, thereby saving on water, fertiliser, labour and land.

Multipurpose, sustainable Allied Fibre Crops

As agri-food increasingly focuses on sustainability, Pek is particularly proud of the Allied Fibre crops SGP Foods is now growing in Thailand and Mexico using seeds from America. "In the context of the Allied Fibres Programme, our intervention has increased productivity. Using sustainable development and lowering food production emissions, the company aims to be the world leader in allied fibre products."