St. Mary’s Prep in England is very lucky to offer a wide range of healthy food to its pupils (and staff!). Their International School Meals Day menu included shepherds pie using organic lamb and apple and blackcurrant crumble!
Scotland has been a beacon of inspiration across the world for its work in encouraging our children and young people to make better food and drink choices. As we celebrate International School Meals Day 2018, I am delighted to see so many contributions from Scotland to this year’s international cookbook competition. I am proud that...
By Rebecca Steelman, Communications & Development Coordinator, GCNF Around the world, there is an unprecedented understanding and adoption of school meal programs as an economic investment strategy for country governments. Home-grown school feeding programs not only serve social protection and development goals by feeding hungry children and fostering education, they also contribute intergenerational benefits to...
By Klaus Plenge, Key Account Director, Tetra Pak Peru. Known as ‘Qali Warma’, the school feeding programme in Peru delivers milk and other nutritious products to millions of children aged three to five across eight regions in Peru, including coastal areas, mountainous regions and the capital city, Lima, home to more than 30% of the...
By Janey Thornton, PhD, GCNF Board Member – written on behalf of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) Over the last ten years, school meal programme advocates have increasingly raised the awareness of the importance and value of school meal programmes across the world. Advocates have come from accepting the fact that girls probably won’t...
As part of its multi-intervention approach to sustainable school meals programming, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) through its flagship McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) program provides support for the establishment of school gardens. These McGovern-Dole supported school gardens address a variety of needs. The gardens serve...
By Rebecca Middleton, Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger Hunger can deeply impact individuals, families, and communities. This is true across the globe, from Mogadishu to right here in Washington, D.C. While the root causes and true depth of hunger may differ widely from place to place, food insecurity prevents societies everywhere from reaching their...
What’s your strongest food memory? For some, it might be a fond recollection of cooking with a close family relative; enjoying the taste, smell and texture of home-made food made with loved ones. For others, it might be a trip to a restaurant, or a picnic on the beach. Maybe your favourite food memory is...
Children Count on Soy – five countries featured on International School Meals Day WISHH’s USDA Cochran School Feeding Fellowship alumnae and 2016 participants from Nicaragua and South Africa show their soy-protein foods that they made as part of teams with the culinary students at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia. The school’s chef invited WISHH...
Enfield Catering, part of Enfield Council, London, England shared a fantastic-looking recipe for Salmon Escovitch.