The article ‘School feeding: a unique strategy to fight inequality, poverty and hunger and achieving the SDGs’ was launched on Thursday (09) at T20 Brazil, a G20 group that brings together think tanks and research centres from G20 members and invited countries and organisations.
The article is authored by experts from the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil in partnership with World Food Programme (WFP) staff from other countries, the Rockefeller Foundation, School Health and Nutrition UK and the Global Partnership for Education.
The article points out that children today are the most vulnerable to the intersecting crises of poverty, hunger, poor education and climate change. School feeding programmes are an essential strategy to combat these crises in a synergistic way, addressing several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with multiple benefits and distributing food at scale to schoolchildren and young people.
The text makes up the 300 Policy Briefs that subsidised the recommendations of the T20 Brazil 2024 Communiqué, a document that will be delivered to the leaders of the G20 Brazil Sherpa and Finance Track at the end of the Midterm Conference. This is the first time that the document will be delivered in advance, with the aim of influencing the negotiations and the drafting of the joint declaration during the G20 Leaders’ Summit on 18 and 19 November 2024.
‘The Centre of Excellence’s participation in the drafting of this paper is very important, as it contributes to the mandate of the T20 in the Task Force 01 axis on the elimination of inequality, poverty and hunger,’ said Maria Giulia Senesi, from the WFP Brazil Programmes team, who accompanied the G20 meetings in Brasilia. ‘WFP Brazil is one of the active agents in the group of people and institutions of great relevance that make up this thematic group that subsidises the actions of the T20,’ she said.