Category: <span>nutrition</span>

2024: Make sure no child or young person is too hungry to learn this International School Meals Day
March 14, 2024March 14, 2024
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2024: Make sure no child or young person is too hungry to learn this International School Meals Day

This International School Meals Day, Together Scotland, the alliance of children’s charities promoting the UNCRC’s implementation, have taken the opportunity to shine a light on the work of Magic Breakfast. Making sure that no child or young person is too hungry to learn, Magic Breakfast provides thousands of breakfasts across Scotland to children and young...

2024: Japan provides support for green school in Nuwakot, Nepal
March 14, 2024March 14, 2024
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2024: Japan provides support for green school in Nuwakot, Nepal

Japan has provided grant assistance to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to support the development of a school meal programme in Nuwakot, Nepal. The support has been given to reconstruct earthquake-affected schools in the region, while providing more focus on the learning environment from a nutritional perspective, by providing better school infrastructure and  equipping...

2024: Jamie Oliver school meals award highlights sustainable food
March 13, 2024March 13, 2024
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2024: Jamie Oliver school meals award highlights sustainable food

Image: Richard Clatworthy The Good School Foods Awards, an initiative from UK celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver, is set to highlight the importance of the sustainability of our school meals. Now open for nominations, the ‘Sustainability Stars’ award looks to honour an education setting that has gone the extra mile to make the food...

2024: Blog by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
March 13, 2024March 13, 2024
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2024: Blog by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

International School Meals Day 2024 Jenny Gilruth Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills As Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills I am committed to helping ensure our children and young people are well educated and given the skills to make healthy choices enabling them to live free from diet related conditions. I am proud of...

2024: Tackling crises through school meals programs
March 12, 2024March 12, 2024
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2024: Tackling crises through school meals programs

In our latest blog, Arlene Mitchell, Executive Director of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation in Seattle, examines the concept of innovation in the context of of global crises, and whether school meals can be a catalyst for change.  As International School Meals Day (March 14 this year) draws near, I have been pondering its theme...

2024: Digital school meal planner focuses on nutrition and affordability
March 11, 2024March 11, 2024
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2024: Digital school meal planner focuses on nutrition and affordability

A digital school meal planner created by the World Food Programme (WFP), Imperial College London and AUDA – Africa Union is set to optimise school menus to make meals both nutritious and locally sustainable. The School Meal Planner (SMP) Plus uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create more affordable, nutritious and local meals, and provides users...

2024: Working in collaboration to deliver fortified milk to Yemeni school children
March 5, 2024March 7, 2024
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2024: Working in collaboration to deliver fortified milk to Yemeni school children

  In our latest guest blog, Tetra Pak discusses the acute malnutrition faced by Yemeni children and how innovation around the use of UHT technology can now support food safety. The challenge – childhood malnutrition and barriers to food distribution In Yemen the strain on food security and nutrition is evident. A report by UNICEF...

2024: Limekilns School and Community Garden Project, Scotland
January 17, 2024January 17, 2024
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2024: Limekilns School and Community Garden Project, Scotland

Limekilns School and Community Garden Project started in June 2022. We are so pleased that the school has shared their journey. Background The Charlestown, Limekilns and Pattiesmuir Nature Conservation Group approached our school with an idea to establish a garden for use by the school and the wider community. Land has been leased from the...

2023: ISMD – the day in numbers
March 16, 2023March 16, 2023
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2023: ISMD – the day in numbers

This year was the 11th annual International School Meals Day and had the theme, ‘‘Our changing food – methods, menus and meals’’, encouraged children and young people around the world (with support from their teachers) to connect and talk to each other about the food they eat and the role that it plays in their lives....