Food nutrition in schools
Food nutrition in schools 8ApEr
Schoolchildren and adolescents need a good diet in order to grow, develop, be protected from disease and have the energy to study, learn and be physically active.
Holistic and coherent school programmes and policies are key to achieve children’s human rights to food, education and health. Through complementary interventions such as healthy school meals and food and nutrition education, pupils can improve their diets, develop healthier food practices and extend these to their families and communities.
These programmes can also support local agriculture, strengthen and diversify local food systems and help move people out of poverty by sourcing food for school meals from local smallholder farmers.
Schoolchildren and adolescents need a
good
diet in order to grow, develop,
be protected
from disease and have the energy to study, learn and be
physically
active.
Holistic and coherent school
programmes
and policies are key to achieve children’s human rights to
food
, education and health. Through complementary interventions such as healthy school meals and
food
and nutrition education, pupils can
improve
their diets, develop healthier
food
practices and extend these to their families and communities.
These
programmes
can
also
support local agriculture, strengthen and diversify local
food
systems and
help
move
people
out of poverty by sourcing
food
for school meals from local smallholder farmers.
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