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WFP Launches Major Study Into Brazil's Success In Buying From Smallholder Farmers
un article par World Food Programme
The World Food Programme’s Centre of Excellence against Hunger
is launching a research initiative supported by the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to analyse Brazil’s success in linking smallholder
farmers with government demand for farmed food. 
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The launch is taking place at this week’s Global Child Nutrition
Forum in Johannesburg which runs until 3 October.
The aim of the research is to share evidence from the Brazilian
experience to help other countries achieve similar success. In the
last decade, Brazil has gained widespread recognition for fighting
hunger and extreme poverty, in part through its local procurement
programme.
“This project will look at the costs and benefits of governments
buying food from smallholders such as cooperatives and family
farms and how this is linked to advances in national food security. It
will also present an investment case study for other countries,” says
Daniel Balaban, Director of WFP’s Centre of Excellence against
Hunger, who is attending the Global Child Nutrition Forum in
Johannesburg.
Brazil has lifted millions of people out of poverty under a strategy
that includes buying food from local farmers for public institutions
such as hospitals, schools and orphanages. One major public
programme is Home-Grown School Feeding which provides school
meals to around 45 million students each day in Brazilian public
schools. For students, it encourages attendance and helps them
concentrate in class. For farmers, the predictable government
purchases reduce risk and encourage improved quality and higher
incomes.
The research initiative will include five different studies, conducted
in partnership with two renowned research institutions based in
Brazil: the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a research institute
specialized in the evaluation of public programmes, and the
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, a global forum for
policy dialogue and South-South learning on development
innovations. The research results will be released in 2015.
The Global Child Nutrition Forum is the leading international event
on school feeding - around the world, 368 million children receive a
daily meal at school. About 250 participants will attend the Forum,
including ministers, government officials and representatives of UN
agencies and non-governmental organizations. It is being
organized by the Global Child Nutrition Foundation in partnership
with WFP’s Centre of Excellence against Hunger. It is supported by
the Government of Brazil, through its National Fund for the
Development of Education and the Social Service for Industry Brazil,
the Government of South Africa and WFP’s South Africa Regional
Office.
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