Why it Matters
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Financial Instruments Toolkit for Regenerative School Meals
Combining investment for agricultural production and school feeding opens up new pathways for funding streams. This toolkit offers a way to frame and package financial mechanisms, provides evidence on how regenerative school meals can increase credit worthiness and macroeconomic stability, and showcases national and local examples of financing structures delivering impact.Download PDF
Featured Content
- A case for how Regenerative School Meals can create jobs, improve nutrition, and build sustainable food systems — with lessons from Brazil and South Korea.
Impact Stories
- The Traditional Grains Mixture Project is focused on studying if innovations around an ancient practice — growing mixed grains in a single field — can improve global food security.
- The Amana Project is creating a transformative financial system to support smallholder farmers provide more nutritious food to schools while restoring soil health and safeguarding biodiversity.
- Rosaline Gitau grew up never having enough to eat, and it impacted her education and future. Her daughter was headed down the same path--until a school lunch disrupted generational poverty.
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- Apr 23 2025Sustainable Financing Initiative With Rockefeller Foundation Support Identifies Innovative Ways To Expand School Meals Worldwide
- Oct 04 2024Rockefeller Foundation Joins G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty To Advance Climate-Resilient School Meals