This week’s must-read news for Food Systems leaders monitoring Asia-Pacific:

1. Geopolitics is exposing again how dependent food systems are on fertilizers, energy, and fragile shipping routes, as the Iran war disrupts key flows.

2. Governments are stepping in more directly, shaping priority sectors and domestic capacity rather than relying on market signals alone.

3. Capital is holding, but concentrating in solutions tied to productivity, resilience, and deployment.

4. Technology is moving deeper into decision-making, raising new questions around control, incentives, and who ultimately shapes the system.

A week where control of the food system is being reshaped by geopolitics, policy, capital, and technology.

What’s inside this week:

🌍 Iran war disrupts fertilizer, energy, and food supply chains

🇸🇬 Singapore boosts local production with new funding push

🇨🇳 China embeds protein and climate into 15th five-year plan

💰 Agrifoodtech funding stays flat, capital shifts to fundamentals

🌊 India positions seaweed as core to blue economy strategy

Hope you enjoy the read.

Renato Silva 
Further Insights Co-Founder

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