Home_Grown School Feeding Resource Framework

Summary

This comprehensive resource framework aims to exploit the potential of school feeding in alleviating rural poverty by supporting the development of home-grown school feeding (HGSF).

HGSF (and nutrition) programmes are designed to stimulate local production: by purchasing the food required from local smallholder farmers and processors they create a stable demand for quality and safe food, stimulate local production, support the development of local skills, and combat malnutrition. By providing initial assistance to local smallholder farmers to develop their capacity for providing a reliable food supply, HGSF programmes can also expand opportunities for smallholder farmers to gain access to markets, and contribute to rural transformation.