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On March 1st, African School Feeding Day is celebrated worldwide. This year’s theme is \u201cA decade of food. Celebrating the past, ensuring a just future\u201d, and the celebrations promoted by the African Union will take place from February 28 in Bangui, Central African Republic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since the beginning of its work in Brazil in 2011, the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger has contributed, through international cooperation, to the implementation of school feeding policies and incentives for family farming in countries of the Global South, including African countries.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The commemorative date was conceived in 2015, at the suggestion of the Centre of Excellence’s director, Daniel Balaban, during an African Union study visit to Brazil, and adopted worldwide in 2016, when the Multidisciplinary Committee of African Experts on School Feeding was established, created to facilitate the implementation of this agenda.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout its 13 years of operation, the Center of Excellence has promoted cooperation with more than 40 African countries, focusing on dialogue centered on school meals as a high-impact investment that strengthens food systems, guarantees children’s education and stimulates the economy through local agricultural production.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n