Food systems in Eastern Africa continue to be battered by multiple shocks, including climatic and environmental, resulting in them becoming increasingly unhealthy, unsustainable, and inequitable, further eroding the resilience of communities. From a nutrition perspective, a failed food system affects children the most.
The Home-Grown School Feeding collaboration is a partnership between the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) aimed at enhancing children’s health and nutrition in Eastern African countries.This is achieved through the provision and preparation of local nutritious school meals sourced from smallholder producers and other local value chain actors, thereby contributing to the local economy.
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.