Diversifying public food procurement and school feeding

Swensson, Luana F.J.; Tartanac, Florence

doi:10.4324/9780429030574-7

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“…School feeding sits at the intersection of many interlocking development issues: children's health and wellbeing, food and nutrition security countering hunger and malnutrition, the power of public procurement (Morgan & Sonnino, 2008;Swensson & Tartanac, 2020), employment and care work (Gaddis & Coplen, 2018), and gender equality for girls attending schools and women working in school kitchens. Looking at its impact on education, nutrition, and economic development, its benefits reach individual children, households, and the larger society.…”

Section: School Meals In Urban Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

What's cooking? Adding critical feminist research to the pot - Community kitchens, school feeding programmes, and savings schemes in Cape Town, Nairobi, and Ouagadougou

Battersby¹,

Ben-Zeev²,

Buthelezi³

et al. 2022

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TMG’s Urban Food Futures programme closes its scoping phase with a series of reports summarising the main insights lying the foundation for the next phase of action research. Grounded in the right to food and the six dimensions of food security, this working paper explores how community kitchens, school feeding programmes, and informal saving schemes work and how communities use them to cope with shocks. The paper investigates how vulnerable urban communities in Ouagadougou, Nairobi, and Cape Town use these three components to combat hunger and food insecurity in times of crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, violent evictions, and armed conflicts. The paper further explores both the potential and the barriers of these initiatives to become urban nutrition hubs, places where community members engage in dialogues and build social capital to understand the structural conditions of hunger and what they can do to address them.

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Section: School Meals In Urban Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%