Sep 06, 2019

Good Practices #1

School Feeding in Portuguese Speaking Countries

The Centre for Excellence against Hunger launched the first publication of the Good Practices Series. The series provides successful examples of school feeding programs in Portuguese-speaking countries. The document compiles processes, laws and strategies implemented in Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Brazil and Mozambique.

Aug 30, 2019

Lesotho begins school feeding restructuring

From 19 to 23 August, a team of experts…

Aug 28, 2019

Employee of the Month: Peter Rodrigues

30 years of humanitarian work Peter Rodrigues is…

Aug 23, 2019

Bangladesh approves school feeding policy

The government of Bangladesh approved the National School Meal…

Aug 15, 2019

Policy Brief #3

PNAE´s Legal and Policy basis: Building a Pathway to Homegrown School Feeding

WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger has issued a new policy brief called “PNAE’s Legal and Policy basis: Building a Pathway to Homegrown School Feeding”. The publication presents a timeline of the Brazilian pathway up to the implementation of a home-grown school feeding programme. The publication highlights the importance of considering the broader context of the fight against hunger in the country, through the main legal and institutional bases for food and nutrition security – developed between 1955 and 2010.

Aug 09, 2019

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.