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.

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.

This policy brief also describes institutional and legal regulatory frameworks, which are an important way to ensure compliance with people’s Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) at the national level. These regulatory frameworks help to institutionalize the effective functioning of food systems, and they can assist in potentializing multisectoral coordination. Finally, they are a powerful tool to ensure the sustainability of programmes and policies.

The publication also describes the Brazilian journey by highlighting two main elements: intense and continuous mobilization of civil society; and a progressive institutionalization of the theme through the creation of public policies and legal frameworks.

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