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Catalysing community driven food systems transformation: Pathways through school feeding in Nigeria

  • savdysard
  • Oct 29
  • 1 min read

Updated: Dec 5

Members of the Community of Practice gathered at a workshop in Abuja, Nigeria. Credit: Abimbola Adesanmi.
Members of the Community of Practice gathered at a workshop in Abuja, Nigeria. Credit: Abimbola Adesanmi.
The Nigerian Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is a food-based safety net programme focused on providing food to children and improving food security of beneficiary households. It was launched with the intention of implementing a sustainable school meals programme (SMP) that would establish a social safety net for the poor and eradicate malnutrition in school-age children while stimulating the national agricultural economy— acting as a catalyst to drive agriculture-nutrition policies and strengthen food systems in the country.
However, the country’s agricultural sector faces significant operational challenges as smallholder farmers struggle with productivity due to resource constraints, limited skills, market inconsistencies, security issues, and climate change. The SMP, being a major platform embedded in government policy and social protection systems, can serve as a catalyst to promote equitable and sustainable food systems transformation in the country.
The Food Systems Transformation Through School Feeding project under the CCHeFS initiative addresses this challenge by promoting interventions that integrate nutrient-rich, locally grown crops into SMPs. This project spotlight details the status of a new intervention in Nigeria.



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