Social Sustainability
School Feeding
Providing meals to children at school — the world's largest social safety net, combining nutrition, education and local farm demand.
Definition
School feeding programmes provide meals, snacks or take-home rations to children at school, delivering simultaneous benefits: improved nutrition and learning, increased enrolment and attendance (especially of girls), and a safety net for poor households. The World Food Programme describes school meals as the most widespread social safety net globally, reaching hundreds of millions of children; WFP's school feeding reached roughly 80 million children in recent years.
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