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Baseline assessment of home-grown school feeding in Ethiopia

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 70 p.

Author Prifti, E.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-137636-2

Synopsis (short abstract) Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes have seen a considerable growth around the world in recognition of their crucial role as boosters of children's health and educational outcomes, as well as of countries' overall growth potential through stimulating economic activities and developing markets through local procurement. School feeding programmes have been implemented in Ethiopia for 20 years. The scope of this report is to present the results of a 2019 baseline study of a HGSF programme implemented by the Government of Ethiopia. The impact evaluation, whose results are presented in this publication, was designed to capture the impacts of the HGSF programme on farm production, food security and schooling. The evalutation is based on a post-test-only, non-equivalent control group design, and on two rounds of data collection: the first took place in June–July 2019 at the end of the school year, while the second was planned forthe same period in 2020, but did not materialize owing to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Prift, E. 2023. Baseline assessment of home-grown school feeding in Ethiopia. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4312en

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