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World Vision urges Ghana to buy school meal food from local farmers
Its West Africa director says the approach would lift child nutrition and put money directly in the hands of farmers and women.
Reported by Citi Newsroom; not yet confirmed by a second outlet.
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World Vision has urged Ghana to stock the School Feeding Programme with produce bought straight from nearby communities, Citi Newsroom reported. Officials of the charity made the case on the sidelines of the Micronutrient Forum's global conference, according to Citi Newsroom.
What's disputed / unconfirmed
- Citi Newsroom reported that World Vision wants food for the School Feeding Programme sourced directly from local communities, to improve what children eat and to support farmers.
- According to Citi Newsroom, Carla Denizard, World Vision's Regional Director for West Africa, spoke on Monday, 28 September 2026 at the 7th Global Conference of the Micronutrient Forum, whose theme was "Nutrition at the Frontiers of a Changing Environment".
- Ms Denizard argued, as Citi Newsroom reported, that buying school-meal ingredients from local growers would be good for pupils' diets and would also boost farm output, food security and livelihoods.
- Citi Newsroom reported her view that farmers and women who grow food would gain directly from the demand the school meals scheme creates.
- Dan Irvine, World Vision International's Global Director for Health and Nutrition, argued, according to Citi Newsroom, that efforts should centre on stopping malnutrition before it starts instead of mainly treating it.
- Mr Irvine said, as Citi Newsroom reported, that malnutrition is best prevented by making sure young children eat nourishing food from the start.
- Citi Newsroom reported Mr Irvine's remark that many communities already have nutritious foods close at hand, and that helping families add them to everyday meals could do a great deal to prevent malnutrition.
Why it matters for Ghana
The School Feeding Programme serves meals to pupils in communities across Ghana, so decisions on where its ingredients come from touch both children's diets and local farm incomes. Buying from nearby growers would, in the charity's argument, channel school-meal spending to farmers and women who produce food, rather than to distant suppliers.
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