IFPRI and Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research Launches Intervention Project

An intervention project has been launched by the interventional food policy research Institute (IFPRI) and Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) in collaboration with Japanese experts. The aim was to utilize Japans expertise in school launches to safeguard vulnerable children against worsening food insecurity crises. The purpose of the inception meeting was to inform all appropriate stakeholders and call for assistance and involvement. The Senior Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institutes for Medical Research Madame Gloria Folson said in many developing countries, sustainable school meal systems have been challenging to run for various reasons suitable food.appropriate school facilities and certified dieticians, which is serious problem when people live under the current threat of food price spikes .Lin collaboration with Japanese experts working on school lunches from the University of Niigata prefecture and then Japan society of Nutrition Dietetics together with local Ghanain expertise, the Ghana school feeding program and key stakeholders we plan to introduce a sustainable school meals. Intervention aiming to support and improve Ghana school feeding program be ridesigning menus and strengthening linkages to local agriculture based on Japans experience in the school launch program. Professor Noboku Murayam stated that Japanese school are integrated with nutrition and education this Ghana would benefit from employing the style of Japan by melding nutrition with education .Dr Futoshi Yamauchi also said in his presentation is pilot intervention so the scale is relatively small. A number of 40 schools are initially to be used as an intervention out of which twenty will be chosen to receive financial intervention for nutrition. Intervention school will be helped through thorough education and training data collection would be taken at both intervention and control schools. At the feedback and discussion, stakeholders were made aware that the launch meals would constitute locally based foods in Ghana to encourage the purchase of homo-grown produce bettering local production. The key stakeholders are also encouraged to do their best to help sustaining the school feeding programe.

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