Environmental Security and Its Connection with Food Security: Practical Aspects on Example of Singapore

The issue of environmental security has not been defined well in the literature. What is more, practical aspects of activities to ensure it should be precised. The goal of this paper is to partially complete this gap by indicating the role of actions aimed at ensuring environmental security in the context of food security, on the basis of a case study of Singapore. To this end, the term has been clarified (taking into account the overview of the literature), and its role and the link to national security and food security have been indicated. Further, the conditions for shaping the latter in the context of ensuring environmental security are presented. Without prevention / limitation of threats to the natural environment, the source of which can be both man and the natural environment, it is difficult to ensure appropriate conditions for food security. Simultaneously, certain limitations in socio-economic development, caused for example by limited space for agriculture, can be overcome by the use of knowledge, research, and technological solutions, and thus contribute to the improvement of the environmental quality.