Agriculture

Initial evidence suggests school meals may connect schools to local agriculture and smallholder livelihoods. The Home-Grown School Feeding programme marked a shift toward integrating agriculture, food systems transformation, and local procurement with health and nutrition aims. School meals can create structured food demand that may affect local procurement, production, food systems, and agroecological transitions. The agriculture domain includes local procurement, agricultural production, smallholder livelihoods, market linkages, and food systems transformation.