How school meals could transform Africa’s food systems
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In March 2025, Imperial College London led a multi-country project workshop on food systems transformation to explore how school meals could help reshape food systems. This project is part of the Research Consortium’s Food Systems Transformation Community of Practice.
The workshop convened research teams from Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and the UK, in Musanze and Kigali, Rwanda, for a week of collaboration, learning, and visioning for the future of food, to advance progress of its 'Food Systems Transformation Through School Feeding' project. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the project explores how school meals can catalyse improvements in nutrition, agriculture, education, and community engagement. During the workshops, participants shared project updates, discussed gender equity and policy engagement, and visited flourishing school farms—illustrating real change in action.
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