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N4G 2025 side event: Maximizing the nutrition impact of school meal programmes
13/03/2025
The Global School Meals Coalition, the Coalition of Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for Children and All, FAO, WFP, UNICEF and UN-Nutrition cordially invite you to attend the Nutrition for Growth...

GCNF launches report of the survey: School Meal Programs Around the World
06/03/2025
The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) has released its latest report, featuring insights from the

Peer-to-peer session connects young activists
18/12/2024
On November 28, an inspiring and intimate session brought together FAO-WFP’s nine School Food Advocates and...

Junior World Food Day 2024 –Spotlight on School Food Advocates in Virtual Segment
04/11/2024
On October 17, Junior World Food Day teamed up with the World Food Forum’s School Assembly at FAO, creating a large-scale eve...

Check out the Winners of the School Food Youth Advocate Winner Contest!
14/08/2024
FAO and WFP are very excited to announce that nine young students have been chosen as School Food Youth Advocates. The winners of our contest are students between the ages of 10 to 17 and come from Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, South Korea, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Eswatini and the United State...

Ghanaian stakeholders, FAO and WFP hold multistakeholder consultation in Accra to discuss nutrition standards for school meals
17/07/2024
From 7th to 9th May 2024, the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) coordination, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) held a consultation workshop on nutrition standards for school meal...

FAO and WFP lead Expert Panel on school meal nutrition standards at Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin
31/01/2024
On 18th January, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) led the Expert Panel "School meal nutrition standards as a tool to support the right to food in schools" in the framework of the 16th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFF...

Cambodian stakeholders, FAO and WFP gather to discuss nutrition standards for school meals, paving the way for piloting phase in schools
06/12/2023
From 6th to 8th December 2023, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYs) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are holding a consultation workshop on school meal nutrition standards. The wo...

GCNF 2024 Global Survey of School Meal Programmes
05/12/2023

About the School Meals Coalition's First Global Summit
19/10/2023

SchoolFood4Change Youth Delegation at the World Food Forum
12/10/2023

FAO-WFP webinar explores how school-based food and nutrition education can enhance the impact of nutrition guidelines and standards for school food
13/12/2022

Experiences from School Foodservice Staff - Junior World Food Day 2022
21/10/2022

FAO and WFP side event of School Meals Coalition Week explores the importance of nutrition guidelines and standards for school food
18/10/2022

FAO-WFP online event explores the importance of procurement to implement school food nutrition guidelines and standards
04/10/2022

RAES Network event in Brazil brings together ten Latin American countries and Caribbean institutions
24/08/2022

School food environments at the centre of discussion of FAO-WFP online event
01/08/2022
On 21st July, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) held the second online event of their series on school food, titled "Healthy school food environments. Seeking policy and technical coherence", which was attended by more...

Cambodia joins FAO and WFP to improve children’s diets through school food
12/07/2022

A new online global hub to enhance the discussion and exchanges on school food and nutrition
07/07/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the School Meals Coalition, have launched an innovative online platform to promote nutritious and more sustainable school food and higher quality food and nutrition e...

FAO-WFP online event explores the role of policy and legal frameworks in implementing nutrition standards for school food
23/05/2022
On 12 May 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) jointly hosted the online event “School food and nutrition policy and legal frameworks. School meal nutrition guidelines and standards – a tool to support the right to food”...