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As we transform the way we grow and share food, how can school meal programs help keep students nourished? That's what our experts will focus on at the hashtag #GlobalChildNutritionForum next week, where we’ll share innovative solutions to global nutrition challenges. World Vision is committed to helping ensure that every child has access to nutritious meals, unlocking their potential and creating lasting change. At this year’s conference, we will highlight: 🔶 Sustainable school meals: By sourcing food from local farmers, we help address climate challenges, support local economies, and provide children with the nutrition they need to thrive. 🔶 Community leadership: Through McGovern Dole Food for education programs in Mozambique and Cambodia, we empower communities to lead, ensuring school feeding initiatives are both impactful and sustainable. 🔶 Strategic global partnerships: Collaborations with donors, partners, the private sector, and local governments amplify our ability to co-create and deliver impactful, scalable solutions, even in fragile contexts. Visit our booth to see interactive visuals, learn about successful programs, and connect with our experts—and don’t miss our workshop on the future of school meals through local and regional procurement on December 11. Co-hosted with Catholic Relief Services, “Local Ingredients, Global Impact” will feature sustainable procurement and community impact insights from World Vision Chief of Party for Partnering for Sustainable Education Outcomes (PARES) Richard Ndou, Program Commodities Manager Mangani Banda, and World Vision Senior Manager of Food Security and Livelihoods Precious Mubanga. World Vision is a leader in sustainable and innovative child nutrition programs. Join us in Japan to learn how we are addressing malnutrition through community-driven, impactful approaches. Stay tuned for more information! #ChildNutrition #Sustainability #GCNF2024 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) cescmoz International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Catholic Relief Services International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

📚 #NEWPUBLICATIONS Proceedings of the Regional Policy Forum on “From Farms to Schools: Towards Sustainable and Inclusive School-Based Food and Nutrition Programs in Southeast Asia” Download it here for free: https://lnkd.in/gWRT8zCM This Knowledge Exchange Series issue showcases the proceedings of the regional policy forum From Farms to Schools: Towards Sustainable and Inclusive School-Based Food and Nutrition Programs in Southeast Asia, which was held from 24 to 25 April 2023 at the Crimson Hotel, Muntinlupa City, Philippines. The forum was a partnership between #SEARCA and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA). It gathered key representatives from ministries of education and agriculture in Southeast Asia (SEA), international and development organizations, academic institutions, and farmers’ and civil society organizations that share the same goal of developing and implementing sustainable and inclusive school-based food and nutrition programs (SBFNPs) in their home countries. The event discussed potential policy interventions and courses of action to address the nutrition-education-development nexus and emphasized the need to include family farmers in new or existing SBFNPs in SEA. #SEARCAPublications #SEARCANews #SEARCAATTAIN

As we transform the way we grow and share food, how can school meal programs help keep students nourished? That's what our experts will focus on at the #GlobalChildNutritionForum next week, where we’ll share innovative solutions to global nutrition challenges.    World Vision is committed to helping ensure that every child has access to nutritious meals, unlocking their potential and creating lasting change. At this year’s conference, we will highlight: 🔶 Sustainable school meals: By sourcing food from local farmers, we help address climate challenges, support local economies, and provide children with the nutrition they need to thrive.  🔶 Community leadership: Through McGovern Dole Food for education programs in Mozambique and Cambodia, we empower communities to lead, ensuring school feeding initiatives are both impactful and sustainable.  🔶 Strategic global partnerships: Collaborations with donors, partners, the private sector, and local governments amplify our ability to co-create and deliver impactful, scalable solutions, even in fragile contexts. Visit our booth to see interactive visuals, learn about successful programs, and connect with our experts—and don’t miss our workshop on the future of school meals through local and regional procurement on December 11. Co-hosted with Catholic Relief Services, “Local Ingredients, Global Impact” will feature sustainable procurement and community impact insights from World Vision Chief of Party for Partnering for Sustainable Education Outcomes (PARES) Richard Ndou, Program Commodities Manager Mangani Banda, and World Vision Senior Manager of Food Security and Livelihoods Precious Mubanga. World Vision is a leader in sustainable and innovative child nutrition programs. Join us in Japan to learn how we are addressing malnutrition through community-driven, impactful approaches. Stay tuned for more information! #ChildNutrition #Sustainability #GCNF2024 

Today, at the University of Ghana's Kole Bu Campus, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Department of Dietetics, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences. As a pioneer in Ghana's dietetics development, Prof. Anna Lartey, Former Director of Nutrition, FAO, shared her expertise, highlighting key areas: - Integration of technology into dietetics practice - Combating misinformation on food and nutrition - Expanding dietitians' roles beyond clinical settings - Addressing expensive foodstuffs - Protecting soil, water, and food security from galamsey - Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Prof. Lartey emphasized: "Good nutrition starts with what comes from the soil." Galamsey's alarming consequences threaten soil, water, and food security. As we mark two decades of nurturing dietetics professionals (a year-long celebration), let's: 1. Prioritize sustainable practices 2. Protect our environment 3. Ensure healthy ecosystems for future generations Join us in promoting sustainable nutrition and environmental stewardship. #NutruringDieteticsProfessionals #SoilToPlate #GalamseyFree #SustainableAgriculture #Dietetics #UniversityOfGhana #20thAnniversary

New paper out with colleagues in Public Health led by Putu Novi Arfirsta Dharmayani and A/Prof Seema Mihrshahi. "Exploring reasons for high levels of food insecurity and low fruit and vegetable consumption among university students post-COVID-19". Important research highlighting that much work needs to be done to address student food insecurity. https://lnkd.in/g7b4uEBY

The next generation of consumers are our future! 🌍 We realise the urgency to bring the challenge of a more sustainable food system to our youth, to provide them with knowledge and educational resources to care for the sector throughout their lives and continue what we have started, making sustainable choices and driving impactful change. 🎓 The Dom-Gymnasium, a local high school in Freising, Germany, invited us to be a part of a panel session focusing on alternative diets - “Adventure on the plate: Alternative diets in the spotlight”. After an impulse-speech by Dipl. nutritionist, Hellen Meyer, our Managing Director Jérôme Hamacher, alongside 2 of our partners, Thomas Skurk from Technical University of Munich and Peter Eisner from Fraunhofer IPA, drove the discussion on the topic for the students. 🧠 Thank you to the students of the P-Seminar and Franziska Elwischger for inviting us and bringing this important topic forward! 💚 Key takeaways include: ⭐ Food education is crucial, in terms of nutrition and environmental impacts of our food and diets. ⭐ When it comes to food and diets there's no “one size fits all”. Individual needs e.g. age, health and socioeconomic status must be considered. #foodsystem #healthyliving #education

Food in public institutions, including schools, is often nutritionally sub-standard, has a large environmental footprint, and does not come from local sources - nor is it often liked by pupils, patients, prison inmates, etc. What Fatma Sabet and I are doing in this new paper is to provide a framework for how this can be done differently. What we call an experiential planetary health framework for school food has the following dimensions: 1. Sustainable meal provision: less meat and more plant-based ingredients, which are sourced locally from sustainable sources and prepared in the school kitchen from scratch. 2. Link between school meals and food education: these are not separate things; by combining them, huge progress can be made, particularly if we involve pupils in scratch cooking. We need cooking classes, school gardens, more eating together. 3. School food partnership: close engagement between pupils, parents, teachers, kitchen staff, and local producers. Thank you, Fatma, for the amazing leadership in this super-important research and food systems change agenda. Full paper: https://lnkd.in/e_NH2K9h

Sustainable school meals go beyond feeding children—they build resilient communities, empower local leaders, and address global challenges. We’re excited to sponsor the #GlobalChildNutritionForum next week in Japan, where we’ll share innovative strategies and learnings that are improving child nutrition worldwide.    At this year’s conference, we will highlight:  🔶 Sustainability in action: Programs and initiatives showing how sourcing food locally supports both school feeding efforts and local economies, creating climate-smart solutions.  🔶 Empowering communities: From Mozambique to Afghanistan, we prioritize local leadership to develop lasting, community-driven solutions that nourish children’s futures.  🔶 Strategic partnerships: Working with partners like USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and local governments, we amplify impact, providing children in even the most fragile contexts access to nutritious meals and education. Stop by our booth to explore interactive materials, see case studies of impactful programs, and connect with our experts—and join World Vision experts at our workshop on the future of school meals through local and regional procurement. Co-hosted with Catholic Relief Services, “Local Ingredients, Global Impact” will feature sustainable procurement and community impact insights from World Vision Chief of Party for Partnering for Sustainable Education Outcomes (PARES) Richard Ndou, Program Commodities Manager Mangani Banda, and World Vision Senior Manager of Food Security and Livelihoods Precious Mubanga. Together, we can build a world where every child has access to nutritious food, unlocking their potential and strengthening their communities. Stay tuned!     #GlobalChildNutrition #Sustainability #LocalLeadership #Innovation #GCNF2024 

One of the challenges that 🍁 Canadian #dietitians face is that they are increasingly expected to factor #sustainability and #sustainablefoodsystems into their professional practice but were not trained to do so. Thanks to research funding from #CFDR, my colleagues Drs. Jessica Wegener, Tracy Everitt, RD, PhD, and I aim to support dietitians narrow the gap between our professional commitments in promoting healthy, sustainable diets and food environments, and the preparedness of our current and future workforce. ❓ We are exploring how SFS concepts are taught in Canadian dietetic education to identify competency gaps and resource needs. 👀 Want a sneak peak at the results? We are finding that many programs are including sustainability content, and there is quite a bit of variability in how that happens. Educators want more clarity on what must be taught and evidence-based resources to better prepare students. There are many competing priorities for curricular space, which puts a squeeze on educators to fit this complex topic into pre-existing courses. 📢Come hear more detail about our findings from Jessica Wegener at our Session: Sustainability in Dietetics Education, Training and Practice in Canada CS07.04 at #ICND2024: June 12th at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM. 📢 Bonus! In the same session you can hear from our colleague, Manuela Thul, share a German Example on Integrating Sustainability in Dietetic Courses. Can't wait! Huge thanks to Jacqueline Stokes, MHSc, RD, Naomi Kereliuk, Soumya Srinivasan, RD, Kaity Engel, and Megan Davies for all of your support on this project. We could not have done it without you! @DietitiansCAN #ICDAsfsToolkit ICDA - International Confederation of Dietetic Associations

Celebrating World School Milk Day: A Personal Mission to Support Children's Nutrition and Local Dairy Today, I’m proud to celebrate World School Milk Day alongside Daniel Zeichner MP, Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Daniel has been a longstanding supporter of school milk, dairy farming, and local dairies, much like many MPs over the years from all parties. Recently, I had the chance to meet with Daniel at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, where we continued discussions on how we can help dairy farmers and local processors build resilience for the future. We’re exploring ways to expand the school milk scheme, ensuring that all children in their reception year, not just those up to their 5th birthday, have access to free milk. Additionally, we’re working to ensure that children receiving free school meals also receive their morning break time milk. Breakfast schemes, using milk and locally grown and processed foods, were also part of our agenda. For over three decades, I’ve dedicated myself to championing the importance of school milk. My involvement in establishing World School Milk Day during FAO discussions has grown into something far greater than I could have imagined. This annual event, now celebrated in many countries, helps raise awareness of the critical role milk plays in child nutrition, particularly in regions where malnutrition and poor diets are a concern. As Chair of the School and Nursery Milk Alliance (SNMA), I’ve continued to focus on the dual mission of supporting children’s health while strengthening the UK’s local dairy industry. By working closely with British dairy farmers and local processors, we’ve created a sustainable supply of fresh, high-quality milk to schools and nurseries, building a system that benefits both our children and our communities. #WorldSchoolMilkDay #SchoolMilk #ChildNutrition #DairyIndustry #Sustainability #LocalFarming #HealthyKids #FarmToTable #EducationAndNutrition