SCHOOL FARMS

•School Farms empowers local

community schools to grow their own
food
•It creates a space to help students gain
practical skills and explore opportunities
in agriculture.
•The main objective of the
program is to address hunger in
schools by helping them grow
their own food
• Other objectives include...
• Increase school enrolment, interest, retention and
attendance
• Reduces the feeding cost of schools
• Equip students with agricultural skills training
• Improve the health of students
School Farms has three components
for success...
• School Farms
Through the support of our local partners and the
community. Schools get the opportunity to
cultivate their own food. This will also give them
the opportunity to understand their food system.
• School Meals
Sustainable school meal addresses the problem of poor
access to education, school dropout rate and
concentration of students on academic work. We
provide highly balanced and nutritious meal from
produce from the school farm to students to enable
their healthy growth and mental development.
• Skills
Develop skills in agriculture

It creates a space to help students gain practical skills and explore

opportunities in agriculture.
Expected Impact
SHORT TERM
• Reduce the feeding cost of schools resulting in a reduction in
the cost of accessing quality education
• Increase in the enrolment, interest and attendance to
schools
• Students will acquire knowledge and skills in agriculture and
as well as the agriculture value chain
• Create job opportunities for local community members
Long Term
• Increase literacy rate because of increased access to
education
• Development skills in agriculture
• Mainstreaming young people in Agriculture
• Increase community cohesion and engagement for
local development
• China produces a quarter of the world’s grain and is the biggest
producer of fruit and veg, meat, poultry and eggs, among other
things, despite having only 10% of the world’s arable land.

• Arable land (% of land area) in Philippines was reported at 18.75 % in

2016, according to the World Bank collection of development
indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources.
https://tradingeconomics.com/philippines/arable-land-percent-of-land-area-wb-data.html
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/china-is-sending-science-students-to-live-with-rural-farmers-and-crop-yields-are-skyrocketing/
1. Ghana School Feeding
Programme, Ghana (AFRICA)
Launched in 10 pilot schools by the former Ghanaian
government in 2005, the Ghana School Feeding Programme
(GFSP) has grown to feed more than 1.4 million children
across 4,500 schools in Ghana. The program has helped
increase school attendance, domestic food production, farm
and household incomes, and food security in many
communities. Active across all 170 districts, the GSFP is
helping to reduce child hunger in some of Ghana’s most
isolated communities.
2. Purchase from Africans for Africa
Program, multiple countries
The Purchase from Africans for Africa Program (PAA) links smallholder
farmers with local schools in five countries—Ethiopia, Malawi,
Mozambique, Niger, and Senegal. Its pilot phase resulted in more than
1,000 metric tons of locally procured food serving 128,456 pupils in 420
schools. Family farmers’ productivity rates have increased by more than
100 percent, with schools feeding activities guaranteeing a market for
an average of 40 percent of the food they produce. PAA is a partnership
between the Government of Brazil, the Government of the United
Kingdom, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the
World Food Program’s Purchase for Progress initiative.
Food for Life, England (EUROPE)
• A collaboration between food activist Jeanette Orrey, the U.K. Soil
Association, and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, Food For Life works to change
food culture in nurseries, schools, hospitals, and care homes. Its “whole
setting approach” works to provide nutritious, sustainably produced food,
promote healthy food behaviors, and educate and engage pupils, patients,
residents, and their families. The whole-school approach ensures that
lessons about food and healthy eating are reflected and reinforced in the
daily life of the school. Students, teachers, and organizers grow their own
food, organize trips to farms, source food from local producers, set up
school farmers’ markets, hold community food events, and serve freshly
prepared meals made from scratch at school lunchtimes.