Food Security and School Nutrition in Cabo Verde

Food Security and School Nutrition in Cabo Verde

Year of publication 2014

Pages 2p.

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) School feeding programmes have proved successful in providing educational and health benefits to the most vulnerable children. They have also improved enrolment rates, household food security, nutritional status and gender equity, each of which contributes to improving the development of individuals and the whole country.

Language English

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