The 24th Global Child Nutrition Forum, which took place from 9 to 12 December 2024 in Osaka, Japan, launched this week the Communiqué, an official document drawn up in a participatory manner and ratified by all the participants, with a balance of the event and recommendations.
It acknowledges that school feeding programmes have increased in quality between 2022 and 2024 and are already contributing to the transformation of food systems. But the document also points to the need to implement more sustainable and resilient systems that can provide more nutritious food for our school children through holistic approaches to transformation and collaboration between all school feeding stakeholders.
The Global Child Nutrition Forum is the world’s oldest and largest forum dedicated to supporting governments and their partners in implementing quality school feeding programmes. Its most recent edition brought together 408 participants from 82 countries for a four-day learning exchange, creating an opportunity for learning, exchange of experience and collaboration.
Brazil was present through representatives of the Brazilian government, presenting their experiences in school feeding and the fight against hunger, and the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil, co-organiser of the Forum between 2013 and 2019.
The Centre of Excellence was represented by director Daniel Balaban, who gave the event’s closing speech, Vinicius Limogi and Ana Clara Cathalat, from the Programmes unit, who were responsible for the workshop that discussed school feeding models linked to local agriculture.
The GCNF’s final document has been forwarded to government representatives and partners, who will share the communiqué to take additional measures in all areas, as recommended.
Read the full document on the GCNF website.