Category: <span>food</span>

March 9, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – Photo journal: Liberia and Kyrgyzstan

2016 – Photo journal – Liberia and Kyrgyzstan A photo journal from the United States Department of Agriculture celebrating primary school and kindergarten aged students enjoying school meals in Liberia and Kyrgyzstan.

March 9, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – Food for Life

2016 – Food for Life Food for Life, a Soil Association initiative, aims to transform food culture and the food environment in schools, early years and health settings. A healthy, affordable and tasty school lunch was on the menu, thanks to groups of brilliant young people!

March 9, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – Cooking and growing together: Dumfries, Scotland

2016 – Cooking and growing together, Locharbriggs Primary School, Dumfries, Scotland The staff and pupils at Locharbriggs Primary School, Dumfries have been very busy learning with their school meals staff and wanted to share some of the photographs and comments. During the small group food sessions the Primary 6 children really worked hard when listening and following instructions...

March 8, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 – a magazine article in Mexico!

International School Meals Day was the focus of a six-page article in Comedores Industriales, marzo – abril de 2016 edition, a Mexican magazine. Comodores Industriales   Read the article (you will need Flash Player)

March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – Are you ready for #ISMD2016?

I can’t quite believe that it’s almost the fourth International School Meals Day. March 3rd sees us celebrate this year’s theme promoting ‘Fresh Local and Healthy’ School Food. The diversity of school meal programmes around the world can be seen daily in the media and with the Global Goals http://www.globalgoals.org still in the minds of many governments, the...

March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – Looking ahead to ISMD this year

Dr Alasdair Allan, MSP, Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s languages, talks about International School Meals Day 2016, on Thursday 3 March 2016. It has been a busy year since International School Meals Day 2015 when I visited Stornoway primary school to see the excitement of pupils getting ready for a skype call with Rosemary...

March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – The First Ever African Day of School Feeding Adds New Meaning to International School Meal Day

On January 31 the African Union adopted homegrown school feeding programs as a continental strategy to enhance attendance and performance of students in school and as a way to boost income generation for local smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs who work in the school meals supply chain. The strategy encourages Member States that have school feeding...

March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – School feeding improves children’s health while strengthening local economies worldwide

School feeding programmes provide a social safety net for millions of children every year. But more than that, they are also helping to strengthen the food value chain in developing countries, creating demand for locally produced food and stimulating economic development. Tetra Pak, which is part of the Tetra Laval Group, has supported school feeding...

March 6, 2016March 9, 2018
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2016 Blog – ISMD: in a word…

There’s one word I particularly want to focus on from the theme of International School Meals Day 2016, and it’s this: healthy. Because as the UK government gets ready to publish its national child obesity strategy, it’s worth remembering that one thing that connects schools across continents is that they have more contact with children...