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Title
Building Sustainable Agricultural Development through Home-Grown School Feeding-he African Approach
Creator
Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Linley Chiwona-Karltun
Description
Proper nutrition is critical for optimal growth, cognitive development, general well-being and academic performance of children. Access to good nutrition either at home or through the educational system can contribute to the elimination of malnutrition and its associated health and developmental problems. In this regard, The 2005 UN World Summit recommended the expansion of local school feeding programmes, using home-grown foods where possible as one of the “Quick impact initiatives” to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, especially for rural areas facing the dual challenge of high chronic malnutrition and low agricultural productivity. Further to this, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Secretariat and UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger proposed that school feeding be linked with agricultural development through the purchase of locally/domestically produced food, school gardens and the incorporation of agriculture into school curricula, to stimulate demand for locally produced food and trigger market mechanisms, particularly in marginal rural areas where these mechanisms do not exist. These developments show increasing recognition by the world community, and particularly by African governments, for the importance of school feeding. Given that most poor people in developing countries live in rural areas and earn livelihoods in the agricultural sector, school feeding is now being seen as a promising synergistic entry point to not only improve educational outcomes, along with nutrition and health status of poor and undernourished children, but also to jump-start local agricultural development in …
Date
2008
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EZuX1N8AAAAJ&cstart=200&pagesize=100&citation_for_view=EZuX1N8AAAAJ:VOx2b1Wkg3QC
Language
English