Education is critically important for the realization of the right to food. Not only is skills training essential to the process of sustainable development, but it is also crucial that general education be provided to everyone, in order that all are aware of the rights they can claim.

  This is particularly the case for women and girls, who are often discriminated against: it is well attested that better education in mothers makes for better nutrition in their children, who are thereby also enabled to learn and achieve more when in school. Children's capacities to ensure their own future food security are enhanced if human rights, agriculture, food safety, nutrition, environmental and health education are integrated into school curricula at all levels.

  School feeding programs can also invigorate not only education itself, by attracting pupils to school and by increasing their attentiveness, but also agriculture, when the programmes are sourced locally and thereby stimulate local market demand.