School feeding and possibilities for direct purchases from family farming

Office of Assistant Director-General (Agriculture Department)

School feeding and possibilities for direct purchases from family farming

Case studies for eight countries

Year of publication 2015

Pages 147 p.

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Agriculture Department)

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-107885-3

Edition 1

Full item page

Synopsis (short abstract) We hope this publication “School feeding and possibilities for direct purchases from family farming in Latin American countries” contributes to the articulation of the sectors involved with school feeding, in the search for alternatives for the institutionalization and strengthening of school feeding policies in the countries; equally, it is hoped that in the medium and long term SFPs can contribute to the human right to food (HRF) and to sustainable human development

Language English

Also available in:

Spanish

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

Book (stand-alone)

Local procurement from family farming for the school feeding programme
The experience of Belize
2022

Also available in:

No results found.

This guideline outlines the step-by-step implementation of direct purchases from family farming for school feeding, considering the pilot implementation of the sustainable schools model in Belize within the framework of Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO programme. The document presents the benefits and challenges of the connection between school feeding and family farming; a brief context of food and nutrition policies and programs, public procurement mechanisms, agriculture and family farming status, and the school feeding initiatives in Belize; as well asgeneral recommendations for the adequate design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of procurement from local family farming for the school feeding program component.
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
Scaling-up purchase from Africans for Africa
Family farmers supply nutritious meals for school children
2014

Also available in:

French
Spanish

Food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition are complex problems. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 214 million people are chronically hungry and child and infant malnutrition rates are amongst the highest in the world. As part of a multipronged approach to addressing the challenge, the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has adopted Home Grown School Feeding as part of its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). There is a need to feed 50 million Afr ican schoolchildren. School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) to date have often relied heavily on development partners for funding and food provision.
Book (series)

On the costs of being small: Case evidence from Kenyan family farms 2017

Also available in:

No results found.

We analyze allocative efficiency of major input factors for farmers in Kenya. Marginal value products are estimated for land, labor, inorganic fertilizer and seeds, at the farm household level and compared with marginal costs as approximated by their prevailing market prices. Price efficient and inefficient farmers are identified and equivalent value losses are computed as shares of household income, per hectare and for the society. A very high proportion of farmers are characterized as allocati vely inefficient and substantial equivalent value losses are estimated for all factors. In the case of labor, losses are sufficiently high that if labor is paid the market wage rate instead, income from agriculture would double. Among other factors, inefficiency levels are correlated with farm size; as farm size increases, losses as share of household income decline for labor but increase for land, fertilizer and seeds. Losses per hectare for all inputs decline with farm size. Finally the correl ates of inefficiency levels are explored systematically. Overall, lack of access to resources is the major reason that some inputs are underemployed. On the other hand, lack of alternative opportunities is a basic reason that factors are overused.