Mainstreaming agrobiodiversity in planet-friendly school meals for children: a scoping review
The global shift away from healthy, diverse, and sustainable diets threatens children’s health and futures.
The global shift away from healthy, diverse, and sustainable diets threatens children’s health and futures.
School meal programmes are thought to improve dietary behaviour in children, with benefits sustained throughout the life course, making them important catalysts for wider food-system change. However, only one in five children globally currently receives school meals.
Planet-friendly school meals offer a unique platform to improve children’s health, promote equitable economies, and transform food systems, contributing to multiple nutrition and environment goals.
This report sets out how school meals can help build a food system fit for the 21st century. New modeling work presented in this report shows that cultivating healthy and sustainable dietary habits is one of the best investments we can make for tomorrow.