History of Home Grown School Feeding (Connecting Farmers to School Feeding) 1
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School Meals collection from around the World 3
History of School Feeding Programs YEAR School Feeding situation 1790 Combine program of teaching and feeding hungry, vagrant children in Munich, Germany 1853 A children s Aid Society of New York initiated a program serving meals to students attending a vocational school 1865 Victor Hugo in France provided funds for hot meals for children in a school 1875 Needy children supplied with free textbooks and food in Hamburg ( Philanthropic society) 1877 Paris began school canteens 1880 Society for Feeding Needy School Children at Dresden 1900s School feeding spreads throughout most of Europe and Africa (1950 _1980 - Kenya; 1994 Safrica) In the 1950s, pupils of several Catholic primary and middle schools were given take-home rations of food aid. The objective was to improve the nutritional status of school children and increase school enrolment and retention (Kenya). SA-supply free milk to white and coloured schools in the early 1940s. 1905 In England, Education (Provision of meals) Act 1946 National school Lunch Program in USA 4
The journey of home grown school feeding Heavy reliance on foreign aid and management Managed, implemented mostly by WFP Programs subjected to fluctuating, and often conditional, international support. There was need to transition toward a more sustainable and nationally integrated alternative. 5
Local food for local children an investment School feeding programme: Provide an opportunity to benefit local farmers, producers and processors Generate a stable, structured, and predictable demand for their products Benefit the children and the community at large (wider local economy). Concept of local food for local children - Home Grown School Feeding initiative signals a wholly new era in the history of school feeding Far from being just about school food, the Home Grown School Feeding initiative embodies the entire drama of development in microcosm. 6
Home Grown School Feeding designed to link school feeding to agricultural development through the purchase and use of locally and domestically produced food (Comprehensive African Agriculture Development (CAADP), a novel approach to school feeding that simultaneously addresses nutritional, educational, agricultural/market improvements in ways that create new and innovative synergies to deliver broader development outcomes (Morgan et al. (2007) in Home Grown: The New Era of School Feeding) linking school feeding programmes with local small-scale farmer production by creating an ongoing market for small landholders ( smallholders ). (Espejo et al. (2009) in Home-Grown School Feeding: A Framework to Link School Feeding with Local Agricultural Production). 7
Home Grown School Feeding Theory $ FOOD Small-Scale Farmer Farmer Needs Accessible and stable market Agricultural support services Expected benefits from Exchange Stable/Timely income Predictable demand Credit worthiness Opportunity for farm investment Poverty reduced in community Exchange School children The Child s Needs Daily nutritious meal, education Expected benefits Exchange Increased enrolment/attendance Reduced drop-out/absenteeism Increased attention/performance Improved nutritional status 8
Home Grown School Feeding in Africa In 2003 African governments included nationally sourced school feeding in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Concept: harness structured demand from school food provision Win-win for farmers and school children NEPAD launched Home-Grown School Feeding programme, with 12 countries invited to implement pilots: Cote d Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria etc. In 2016, at 26th session of AU, the Heads of State and Government decided to institute 1 st March as the African Day of school feeding. Niger hosted the first event under the theme Home Grown school Feeding a conduit for Africa s Sustainable Development 9
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