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By 2050, the global population is set to grow by 2 billion. To meet the world's growing appetite and build a resilient future, businesses through the global food system are increasingly investing to close yield gaps, increase food production limits, and reduce food waste in order to build a more sustainable ecosystem, bolstered by multi-stakeholder partnerships and technological innovation. Join us as we explore a myriad of strategies and approaches that businesses through the value chain, both big and small, have and can adopt to drive food sustainability and play a role in safeguarding the global food supply for generations to come.

As the world seeks economic recovery from COVID-19, much hope seems focused on Asian markets for growth. While the situation is still very fluid, several interesting phenomena, including the Zoom boom, telemedicine revolution, digital transformation, and reinvigorated interest in sustainability are spawning a myriad of opportunities in multiple industries, both old and new. When it comes to business in the 'new normal', where should you be looking to place your bets within Asia?

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for strategic disaster preparedness and innovation plans across public and private sectors, with many businesses seeking to embed organisational resilience in the face of crisis and acknowledging the pressing risks of climate change. But the drive towards more sustainable business practices isn't a recent phenomenon. Investors and financial institutions have been inching in support of businesses that demonstrate positive environmental, social and governance practices. And calls for a more diversified, fossil fuel-free supply chain have prompted differing country investment in renewable energy, particularly in manufacturing regions like Asia. In what has been deemed the decisive decade of the 2020s, how might these new sustainability trends impact the who, what, where, why and how of business in Asia?

As we wrap up this unprecedented year, this report looks back at some of the key IAC activities, milestones and country-specific projects from 2020.

Singapore, 1 October 2020 (Thursday) – Singapore Management University (SMU) welcomed Mr Nadiem Makarim, Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, as the keynote speaker at its Industry Leaders Dialogue today.

The world’s emerging manufacturing hub wants to double its private sector to 40 percent of the economy by end-2021. VinaCapital’s CEO Don Lam is part of a team that’s helping to make that happen Vietnam’s economy has been a star performer for the past few years, especially since the private sector was officially acknowledged as a key economic component by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) at the 12th National Congress in 2016. With a three-year average growth rate just shy of seven percent, things are looking up.