Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems

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dc.creatorPastorino, Silvia
dc.creatorBacklund, Ulrika
dc.creatorBellanca, Raffaella
dc.creatorHunter, Danny
dc.creatorKaljonen, Minna
dc.creatorSingh, Samrat
dc.creatorVargas, Melissa
dc.creatorBundy, Donal
dc.date2024-11-18
dc.date2024-11-27T11:25:46Z
dc.date2024-11-27T11:25:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:21:08Z
dc.descriptionFood systems are facing a global crisis. Most countries are falling behind rather than progressing toward achieving the seven global nutrition targets set for 2030, while unsustainable food production and consumption patterns have contributed to depletion and pollution of natural resources and climate change, further compromising food security and nutrition. Children are disproportionately affected with 1 billion children at high risk of food insecurity. Low-income countries will be the most affected by these changes despite having contributed the least. Planet-friendly school meals, defined as programmes delivering equitable and healthy foods for children, produced in ways that do not pollute or overexploit natural resources and protect biodiversity, are a platform to tackle some of these food system challenges. School meals, mostly state-funded, reach 418 million children every day worldwide offering an opportunity to improve diet quality, and ultimately nutrition and health, and act as a catalyst for food systems transformation contributing to meeting global climate, food, and biodiversity goals.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162798
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/56640
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcePastorino, S.; Backlund, U.; Bellanca, R.; Hunter, D.; Kaljonen, M.; Singh, S.; Vargas, M.; Bundy, D. (2024) Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems. [Comment] Lancet Planetary Health, Online first paper (2024-11-18). 3 p. ISSN: 2542-5196
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectschool feeding
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjecthealth
dc.titlePlanet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems
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