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Rwanda now provides school meals to almost 4.8 million students – one of the country’s most ambitious investments in education, nutrition, and child wellbeing. But as school feeding expands nationwide, attention is increasingly turning to a new question: how can these meals become more nutritious, more diverse, and more connected to Rwanda’s local food systems? These themes sat at the centre of a recent webinar, From Evidence to Action: School Feeding for Food Systems Transfo

What if the food needed to improve children’s diets is already available – but not being included in school meals? This question framed a recent webinar: School Meals and Food Systems in Ghana: Experiences, Progress, and Emerging Priorities, which brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working across school feeding, nutrition, and agriculture.

Researchers from across Africa and the UK gathered in Rwanda to explore how school meals could help reshape food systems—and the results are inspiring.