Schools and Food Security

Schools have the potential of providing students with adequate and nutritious food, while also providing education to strengthen food security in their local communities and globally. The linked video below explores how schools can contribute to food security and nutrition. We invite you to watch the linked video and utilize the discussion points below to guide your conversations around the globe. 

Schools can contribute to making the right to food a reality

Discussion Points

• How can schools directly and indirectly impact food security and nutrition?
• Of the ways that schools can impact food security and nutrition highlighted in the video, which do you find the most important? Are there any ways highlighted that surprised you? Explain your reasonings.
• Reflect on schools in your local area. Do they contribute to food security? What are nutritional standards? How does your school compare to schools in different parts of the world?

Improving Production, Nutrition, Environment, and Life in Panama

Panama is making great strides in improving its agriculture production and practices in collaboration with others. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations created the video linked below to share Panama's story. We encourage you to watch the video and utilize the discussions points below to strike up conversations with others around the globe. 

Panama Advances

Discussion Points

• Examine the video footage? What do you notice about everyday life and agriculture in Panama? What is similar and different from your home area?
• Throughout the video, four main points are shared in blue text: Better production, Better nutrition, Better environment, and Better life. How do these four areas tie together? What does this look like in Panama? Who does this look like in your home region?
• Of all the initiatives and projects highlighted in the video which ones do you feel could have the greatest impact and why?

Climbing Commodity Prices and Food Insecurity in a Complex World

A recent report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture shares the interconnected complex issues driving up commodity prices and food insecurity. We encourage you to read the linked report and utilize the discussion points below to guide your conversations around the globe. 

The Ukraine Conflict and Other Factors Contributing to High Commodity Prices and Food Insecurity

Discussion Points 

• What are the multiple complex challenges driving up commodity and food costs? Are you seeing these increases in your daily life?
• What ideas do you have to alleviate these rising commodity and food prices locally and in other locations around the globe? Provide support for your reasonings.
• What challenges face more vulnerable countries and populations around the globe?
• What worried you most from the article? What gave you hope? Explain your thoughts.