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23.06.2010

WFP school feeding program to be extended in North Darfur

The department of nutrition of the Ministry of Education of North Darfur State has agreed to allow the World Food Programme to extend the school feeding program to additional pupils.

21.06.2010

National School Lunch Program increases educational achievement

A new article from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management is the first to evaluate the long-term health and educational effects of participation in the National School Lunch Program. The study finds that the program leads to a significant increase in educational opportunity and attainment, but an insignificant increase in health levels from childhood to adulthood.

13.06.2010

Obama's Feed the Future Should Include Food for Education in Yemen.

President Obama has unveiled the «Feed the Future» program to attack the global hunger and poverty crisis. For this initiative to succeed, it has to supply children with the foundation for their future — food and education.

02.06.2010

The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), is to be expanded to cover 1,040,000 pupils by the end of the year. The programme currently covers 656,624 pupils.

School feeding programmes provided the opportunity to benefit local farmers and producers by generating a stable, structured and predictable demand for their products, thereby building the market and the enabling systems around it.

05.04.2010

Clinton's Call for Development in Yemen Cannot Go Forward Without Food for Education

The year 2008 brought a "silent tsunami" of high food prices which struck across the globe. The World Food Programme's (WFP) school feeding initiative in Yemen was one of many programs that were victimized.

26.03.2010

Russia Provides Model For School Meals In CIS

The innovative school meals projects being run by the Russian government in a town north of Moscow will be the model for new WFP-coordinated programmes in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

24.03.2010

Feeding America Applauds Passage of Child Nutrition Reauthorization Legislation by Senate Agriculture Committee and Urges Full Senate Action

Feeding America and its network of more than 200 food banks across the country applaud today's approval of a child nutrition reauthorization bill by the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry as a step forward in achieving an end to childhood hunger by 2015. The Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill reported by the Committee has the potential to increase access to nutritious food for children during the school day, after school, in the summer, over weekends and extended school holidays.

04.03.2010

WFP And Russia Sign Deals To Defeat Hunger

WFP has signed two agreements with the Russian government to strengthen their existing partnership over the next three years in the battle against global hunger. Russia will also assist with providing school meals to children in Armenia.

26.02.2010

USDA'S MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION PROGRAM EXPECTED TO FEED 5 MILLION CHILDREN THIS YEAR

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will donate more than 100,000 tons of U.S. agricultural commodities valued at nearly $170 million (including freight costs and technical assistance) in fiscal year 2010 under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) Program.

16.02.2010

Rwanda: Plan Rwanda to Start School-Feeding Project

Kigali - Plan Rwanda, a non-profit organization has partnered with World Food Programme (WFP) to implement the school feeding program set to begin next month in the Eastern Province.

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