ArticleFrontiers in public health2020
Establishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?
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- School feeding programs for improving the physical and psychological health of school children experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of school feeding on educational and health outcomes of school-age children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Peanut Paste-based Ready-to-use School Meals With and Without Milk on Fluid Cognition in Northern Ghana: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Trial
- Supporting the Synergy Between School Meal Programs and Food Banks to Combat Food Insecurity Among Children: A Bayesian Mindsponge Framework Analysis.Health science reports · 2026Article
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- School food environment interventions for health and sustainability.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Article
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- School feeding in Ethiopia: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The SABER School Feeding policy tool: a 10-year analysis of its use by countries in developing policies for their national school meals programs.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Econeurobiology and brain development in children: key factors affecting development, behavioral outcomes, and school interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Large-scale production of non-conventional edible plants for biodiverse school meals.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Effect of school feeding program on dietary folate intake among school adolescent girls in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Impact of school meals on educational outcomes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- School Feeding Programs: What Happens Globally?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- School Meal Programs in Africa: Regional Results From the 2019 Global Survey of School Meal Programs.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The creation of Human Capital is dependent upon good health and education throughout the first 8,000 days of life, but there is currently under-investment in health and nutrition after the first 1,000 days. Working with governments and partners, the UN World Food Program is leading a global scale up of investment in school health, and has undertaken a strategic analysis to explore the scale and cost of meeting the needs of the most disadvantaged school age children and adolescents in low and middle-income countries globally. Of the 663 million school children enrolled in school, 328 million live where the current coverage of school meals is inadequate (<80%), of these, 251 million live in countries where there are significant nutrition deficits (>20% anemia and stunting), and of these an estimated 73 million children in 60 countries are also living in extreme poverty (<USD 1.97 per day). 62.7 million of these children are in Africa, and more than 66% live in low income countries, with a substantial minority in pockets of poverty in middle-income countries. The estimated overall financial requirement for school feeding is USD 4.7 billion, increasing to USD 5.8 billion annually if other essential school health interventions are included in the package. The DCP3 (Vol 8) school feeding edition and the global coverage numbers were launched in Tunis, 2018 by the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley. These estimates continue to inform the development of WFP's global strategy for school feeding.
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