Event presents school feeding governance experiences from El Salvador, Brazil, Guatemala and Paraguay
Hybrid dialogue included Ministers of El Salvador and representatives of the governments of three LAC countries December 13, 2022. The main actors involved in the school feeding policy of the government of El Salvador met to discuss the governance of these programmes in Latin American countries. In addition to the Ministers of Education and Agriculture […]
Article: Schools are an essential part of the transformational change in the food systems
Renata Clarke* “I can’t forget one experience that amazed me during my visit to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this year…. Children who were throwing vegetables at the beginning of the school year were staring at the lettuce and other vegetables as they were the best food they could eat. This is what happens when […]
“We don’t want to just deliver healthier food, but also that students learn what a healthy lifestyle is”
In an interview with the RAES platform, Juan Gabriel Casañas, Undersecretary of School Administration of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador, brings an overview of the SFP and its progress in recent years Paulo Beraldo The School Feeding Programme of Ecuador has been advancing every day since its creation in 2009. The universalization of attention […]
“What children consume triggers and influences their learning process”
Teacher Emy Alfaro, from Belize, shares her remarks about implementing a healthy plan in her school Paulo Beraldo The teacher Emy Alfaro, from Benque Viejo, Cayo, in Belize, has no doubts when it comes to educating the children about what they eat every day. “It is essential to give visibility to eating habits, obesity, hunger, […]
‘School garden is the most effective tool to educate with focus on nutrition’
Nutritionist Maria Angela Delgado tells how Jundiaí, in Brazil, became a national reference for school feeding Paulo Beraldo Jundiaí, a city located a few kilometers from São Paulo, in Brazil, is a national reference when it comes to school feeding. This is due to the organic production of food, the implementation of dozens of school […]
School feeding: LAC countries learned about Brazilian public policy during their mission to the country
Over the course of a week, delegations from 10 countries received information on regulatory frameworks, and policy implementation, and visited public schools and local family farmers’ production areas. BRASILIA, September 6, 2022 – “The school feeding policy is our pride. Because it is considered unquestionable, permanent and with multiple benefits“, highlighted the deputy director of […]
Technical mission takes LAC countries to Brazil to know public school feeding policy
The delegation will be composed of representatives from 10 countries that will arrive in Brasilia on the 29th. Brasilia, August 23, 2022 – Representatives from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries will participate, from August 29th to September 2nd, in an international technical mission organized by the trilateral south-south cooperation project Consolidation of School Feeding Programmes in […]
Countries innovate during the pandemic to continue offering school feeding
During the international meeting of the Healthy Life course, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and the Dominican Republic presented the changes and adaptations in their school feeding programmes. Brasilia, July 20, 2022. The health crisis caused by COVID-19 made many countries change their school feeding supply and, in a certain way, ‘reinvent themselves’. This was the case […]
Año Internacional de las Frutas y Verduras 2021 – Socialización de Resultados de Actividades en America Latina y el Caribe
RAES network can support school feeding in LAC and in the world, says Israel Ríos, nutrition officer of FAO Mesoamerica
Paulo Beraldo The Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES, for its acronym in Spanish) can support the consolidation and strengthening of school feeding not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but also in other countries, evaluates Israel Ríos-Castillo, nutrition officer of the sub-regional office of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Panama. In an […]
