The Cheapest Investment Sudan Can Make: A National School Lunch Programme
local produce local farms school meal $1 invested in school feeding → $9 return in learning, health and local agriculture There is a development intervention so well-proven, so cost-effective, and so politically straightforward that it is almost surprising more countries have not made it a universal right. It is not a new technology or a complex financial instrument. It is a meal — a hot lunch, served at school, every day. ...