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Improving Food and Nutrition Security through Strengthening the Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Programme in Eswatini - TCP/SWA/3704

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 11

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) In Eswatini, low food production and the high dependence on importation create food scarcity and price inflation With low food availability and high prices reducing access to food, levels of food insecurity remain of concerns in the country Rates of malnutrition in Eswatini are also alarming while the prevalence of acute malnutrition is low at just over 1 percent, prevalence of chronic malnutrition remains high at 19 9 percent (Swaziland Household Income and Expenditure Survey [Government of Eswatini, 2017 The Government of Eswatini chose to address hunger in a holistic manner and identified the country’s schools as centres of care and support to achieve food security Its national framework for food security in schools aims to improve food security in schools through a prolonged approach that includes providing school meals and encouraging school gardens and community participation in school meals programmes and nutrition education.

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