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Scaling up the Brazilian school feeding model

Using South-South Cooperation to share Brazil’s experience of school feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean

Year of publication 2014

Pages 48 p.

Author Pye-Smith, C.

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Brazil has made tremendous progress in reducing malnutrition. In 1990, 14.8 percent of the population suffered from hunger; the figure is now just 1.7 percent. This remarkable transformation owes much to the country’s school feeding programme. By 2014, the programme was supplying approximately 43 million pupils with one or more servings of food per day, in almost 250 000 schools across the country. By Brazilian law, at least 30 percent of the food must be sourced from family farms, thus providin g significant benefits to over 120 000 rural families.

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