Ghanaian model teaches how home grown school feeding fights poverty
Home grown school feeding programmes have supported social and economic development in Ghana and can do so elsewhere in Africa. This was one of the key messages given by Food Prize Laureate and former Ghanaian President, H.E. John Kufuor, at a discussion on innovations to tackle food security held in the UK Houses of Parliament last week.
The former Ghanaian president told the audience: “Over 60% of Africans depend on farming for their livelihoods and yet farming is not seen as a business by most farmers. Farming needs to be commercialised and approaches such as home grown school feeding provide the opportunity for this.”
H.E. Kufuor described how school feeding initiatives such as the Ghana School Feeding Programme which sourced its food from local smallholder famers, benefited both school children and famers alike. School meals ensured that school children were properly nourished and more likely to attend school, whilst at the same time, farmers benefited from the increased access to the stable markets that school feeding programmes provided.
H.E Kufuor was speaking at meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development. The meeting, chaired by Lords Boateng and Cameron, brought together parliamentarians, civil servants, academics and other representatives of civil society to discuss innovative ways to improve food security by linking local agriculture, nutrition and education.
The meeting was co-organised with the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, as part of their work in supporting governments in sub-Saharan Africa to implement Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes. These programmes see the delivery of cost effective school feeding sourced from local farmers.
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