Policy Brief #2
Food and Nutrition Education in Brazilian Schools
The WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger – Brazil issued a new policy brief on how the Brazilian school feeding programme has integrated food and nutrition education into the school environment. The document provides an overview of food and nutrition education in Brazil and explores the two-pronged strategy to include food and nutrition education in the school curriculum and the policy base to devise this strategy.
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Policy Brief #1
Financing of the Brazilian School Feeding Programme – PNAE
The Centre for Excellence against Hunger and the National Education Development Fund of Brazil have issued the publication Financing of the Brazilian School Feeding Programme – PNAE, which explains the financial management and the history of the programme´s funding since its inception.
Partnership between WFP Centre of Excellence and African Union
The WFP Brazil Centre of Excellence against Hunger launched a new short publication presenting the collaboration between the Centre and the African Union Commission to advocate for home-grown school feeding and to support AU member states in their efforts to scale up school feeding across the continent.
Brazilian Experience
Acquisition of Smallholder Farming Products for School Feeding
The Manual and its attachments provide the steps and operation arrangement for the acquisition of smallholder farming products for school feeding to elementary education students in the PNAE scope. With a step by step description of the process, the document explains budgeting, coordination between social actors, menu creation, public calls, contracts, quality control, product delivery, and payment to smallholder farmers.
Brazilian Experience
Guide to Support Technical Activities of PNAE Nutritionists
PNAE´s Food and Nutrition Security Coordination elaborated this Guide, hoping to provide practical strategies that may help PNAE nutritionists complete their assignments. This information is vital, given that existing publications do not cover this topic thoroughly and the development of new information on how to solve the main hardships and obstacles of PNAE nutritionists is needed.
The Brazilian Experience
Training Food Handlers Working in School Feeding
This publication is a support material, with the objective of providing theoretical and scientific support to professionals working at National School Feeding Programme (PNAE), for the training of food handlers who work in the Programme. This document is intended for those responsible for training school feeding handlers, including managers, the educational and school feeding sectors, nutritionists, among others.