Video of the School Meals Day: How Can Public Policies Change Lives?
Today, March 13, we celebrate School Meals Day. An opportunity to reflect on how public policies can change lives. School feeding helps transform agrifood systems, reduce poverty and malnutrition. It also improves students’ education and health. The 2025 Regional Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security report revealed that moderate or severe food insecurity affects 28.2% of the […]
Opinion: Global Challenge, Local Solution: How School Feeding Can Help Address the Climate Crisis
Najla Veloso, Executive Secretary of the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES) and Senior School Feeding Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) We live in an era where the economic, social, and environmental challenges of different countries are interconnected and affect the lives of millions of people worldwide, especially the […]
Donald Bundy recognizes RAES as a key partner in strengthening school feeding programmes across LAC region
Director of the Research Consortium of the School Meals Coalition emphasized RAES’s potential to showcase best practices and successful experiences of school feeding in the region. Paulo Beraldo Brasília, Brazil, January 20, 2025 – Professor Donald Bundy, a prominent figure in global school feeding initiatives, has expressed strong support for the RAES Network, highlighting its […]
Interview: ‘School feeding programmes are a virtuous cycle: local farmers increase their income, and students gain access to fresh, quality food’
Najla Veloso, Coordinator of the Project Regional Agenda for Sustainable School Feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Programme. LAfter six years of existence, and with seventeen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean officially joining the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES)—thereby demonstrating their commitment to advancing school feeding policies […]
Opinion: School feeding programmes, key against hunger and malnutrition
Najla Veloso, Coordinator of the Regional Agenda for Sustainable School Feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean – Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program In Latin America and the Caribbean, governments are driving a decisive movement towards eradicating hunger and combating all forms of malnutrition through joint efforts to strengthen school feeding, a policy with generational impact. […]
Teacher transforms eating habits of Salvadoran students and contributes to ensuring the right to food
In the context of World Food Day 2024, a teacher at a school in El Salvador has become an example of how it is possible to unite students and their families around healthy eating and nutrition practices. Paulo Beraldo and Palova Brito Brasilia, Brazil, October 16, 2024 – Although farmers worldwide produce enough food to […]
Opinion: Climate crisis: women in power change lives
The country in flames and the historic drought in Brazil have made me think a lot this week about the direct impact of these environmental problems on people’s lives, especially women’s lives. Our actions certainly have the power to change the world, not only environmentally, but also politically, socially and economically. Yes, we are capable […]
Opinion: School feeding programmes: a strategy to combat hunger and waste
Najla Veloso, coordinator of the project Regional Agenda for Sustainable School Feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the framework of the Brazil-FAO Cooperation Programme. Discussing food loss and waste (FLW) becomes more urgent when we face the data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stating that 1 billion tons of food were […]
Opinion: The 15 years of the Brazilian School Feeding Law, a global reference
With the Law No. 11,947, at least 40 million public school students have healthier and more adequate meals, contributing to their physical and cognitive development. *Najla Veloso, coordinator of the project Regional Agenda for Sustainable School Feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, executed under the Brazil-FAO Cooperation Programme. Brazil’s school feeding programme, which provides […]
Teacher helps to form new eating habits for life with food and nutrition education practices in indigenous community
In an Asháninka indigenous community in Peru, Nolberto Castañeda plants the seeds of change in his reality Paulo Beraldo For teacher Nolberto Castañeda, there is no doubt that the school should be the center of development for a community. It should support the children and young people who study there, help improve their eating habits, […]
