Publications and resources

The Belem Declaration on Hunger, Poverty, and Human-Centered Climate Action (COP30) commits countries to address climate impacts through inclusive strategies that safeguard food security and end hunger. It prioritizes climate-responsive social protection linked to nutrition and school feeding, support for small-scale food producers, and just transitions for vulnerable communities, backed by scaled climate finance.

Learn more about the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. 

The school meals programme in Milan aims to provide each school day an educational meal (good, healthy and sustainable) to all children in the public schools in order to develop good food habits and sustainable lifestyles for their lifespan. Via the design of sustainable and healthy meals, the city strives to ensure concrete transformative changes towards a more sustainable urban food system. The goal of the service is to satisfy the needs of all its users, as well as to promote the food policy guidelines related to healthy and sustainable diets, among other stakeholders such as families, teachers, suppliers, and the broader Milanese community. Integral to this vision are food and nutritional security, food quality, the environment, health and safety in the workplace, transparency, and sustainability.

The objectives of this case study include presenting an introduction to the city profile, outlining the design and implementation of school feeding programmes, describing their monitoring and evaluation processes, and highlighting lessons learned, best practices, and challenges. 

This framing paper, developed by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), outlines the key role of school meals programmes in fragile and conflict-affected settings, while investigating their contribution to peace and social cohesion.

It highlights the main risks and opportunities of school feeding in emergency contexts and identifies potential pathways through which school meals can not only achieve their primary objectives, but also foster peace and social cohesion, emphasizing the importance of conflict-sensitive programming and further evidence-generation. 

This report provides a detailed account of the 2nd Global Summit of the School Meals Coalition and expands on the official Outcome Statement with a full record of discussions, interventions, and commitments. It highlights government progress in coverage, legislation, financing, nutrition standards, digital monitoring, and home‑grown procurement, alongside partner contributions in research, climate, education, and local action.

Coalition partner World Vision undertook a School Meals Child-led Research project ahead of the School Meals Coalition Summit in Brazil, 18-19 September 2025, where over 1,000 children in 13 countries shared their school meals experience. These findings are available in this Global Report, and 13 Country-Level Reports: Brazil, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malawi, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The 2nd School Meals Coalition Global Summit was held in Fortaleza on 18 & 19 September 2025 in Brazil. The Summit brought together around 80 Coalition member states, over 30 at Minister level, and about 60 partner organizations, to take stock of progress and mobilize further action. This document summaries the outcomes from this Summit and what’s next for the Coalition. 

In just 4 years, the Coalition has emerged as one of the most successful multilateral initiatives in recent times. From 46 member governments in 2021 to over 100 member governments today, it has reinforced a growing global commitment and catalyzed government leadership on one common goal: ensuring that every child receives a healthy, nutritious meal in school by 2030. 

The Global Evidence Brief 2025 highlights how governments are using research to strengthen and expand school meal programmes, with findings from over 55 national case studies and 15 value-for-money analyses. Drawing on contributions from a Global Academy of 1,200 experts across 124 countries, the brief shows how school meals support progress in education, nutrition, health, food systems and climate action, and outlines future research priorities to guide policymaking worldwide.

This joint civil society statement, issued ahead of the 2nd Global Summit, articulates the collective priorities and recommendations of the School Meals Coalition’s civil society network. It calls on governments, donors and partners to accelerate efforts to ensure every child can access nutritious school meals by 2030, emphasizing strengthened accountability, inclusion, voice of children, and collaboration across sectors and regions. The statement frames civil society’s role in supporting transparency, monitoring and advocacy to complement government action and drive progress.