Food and nutrition education and school food to improve diets for life

08/12/2022

The webinar focused on how school-based food and nutrition education can increase the impact of school food nutrition guidelines and standards on children and adolescents’ diets, supporting them in developing life-long healthy food practices and habits.

Nutrition guidelines and standards for supporting healthy diets and the right to food in schoolchildren and adolescents

14/10/2022

Side event of the School Meals Coalition Week.

Sustainable procurement for nutritious school food

27/09/2022

This technical webinar addressed the following aspects:

• The importance of combining nutrition objectives with other development objectives in school meal programmes.
• The key role of procurement for ensuring availability of nutritious foods at school.
• The instruments ...

Healthy school food environments. Seeking policy and technical coherence

25/07/2022

This FAO-WFP technical webinar, through the voices of technical and country experts, focuses on t

Launch of the "School food global hub"

23/06/2022

FAO, WFP, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany and the School Meals Coalition unveiled the "School food global hub", showcasing the features and uses of the hub with a focus on the areas in which users can provide their inputs and be involved in first person.

School food and nutrition policy and legal frameworks

12/05/2022

This FAO-WFP technical webinar focuses on the importance of policy and legal frameworks for the implementation of nutritional standards for school food, which can constitute a useful tool for realizing the right to adequate food for schoolchildren and adolescents.

What schools can do for children’s nutrition and food system transformation

16/12/2021

FAO, WFP and WHO hosted a side event in the framework of the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit to present a holistic approach aimed at ensuring that school food for children and adolescents is nutritious, desirable, context-appropriate and more sustainably produced.

FAO-UNICEF Teachers' Lab: How teachers can revolutionize food education in schools

13/12/2021

During this lab, organized by FAO and UNICEF, presentations by experts were alternated by group work, so participants had the opportunity to share their experiences and thoughts, and work together to define ways to transform food education in their contexts.

Masterclass: Revolutionizing food education in youth for more sustainable food pathways

04/10/2021

FAO and UNICEF come together for this World Food Forum masterclass on school-based food and nutrition education. Here you will learn about a vision for school food education that encourages and enables health-promoting and sustainable food practices and outlooks.