[{"bbox": [97, 164, 1134, 225], "category": "Text", "text": "management of school kitchens, taking into account the gender, human rights and disability-inclusive perspective."}, {"bbox": [97, 243, 1134, 331], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.1.3 Procure cereals, pulses, oil, and salt over three years through a hybrid model. Whenever possible, fresh food, including vegetables, will be procured from local smallholder farmers under activity 3.2.5."}, {"bbox": [97, 352, 1134, 414], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.1.4 Provide Nutritious School Meals to beneficiaries in four states, with a contingency for disabled children and support staff."}, {"bbox": [97, 432, 1134, 493], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.1.5 Implement school gardens to teach children agriculture and nutrition, drawing on successful practices and focusing on food preservation and hygiene."}, {"bbox": [97, 512, 417, 541], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Activities related to Output 3.2:"}, {"bbox": [97, 559, 1134, 651], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.2.1 Assess capacities of local smallholder farmers' groups, especially those led by young people, persons with disabilities, and women along the HGSF value chains (production, storage, access to banking services)"}, {"bbox": [97, 669, 1134, 731], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.2.2 Facilitate linkages between local technical services and farmers, including women producers to improve the quality of production and productivity through training and equipment."}, {"bbox": [97, 749, 1134, 810], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.2.3 Train Smallholder Farmers to enhance agricultural practices, post-harvest handling, and food safety standards, including climate-smart techniques and financial literacy."}, {"bbox": [97, 828, 1134, 890], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.2.4 Conduct regular Market Assessments to set prices, with a focus on perishables delivered weekly. Female farmers will be prioritised to enhance their economic participation."}, {"bbox": [97, 907, 1134, 968], "category": "Text", "text": "Activity 3.2.5 Procure food from smallholder farmers for schools, with the actual number and gender distribution of farmers to be identified during implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 986, 1134, 1248], "category": "Text", "text": "**Adaptation to the crisis context:** the Action will apply a new hybrid model of school feeding. In states with stability and agriculture potential home-grown school feeding (HGSF) will be implemented linking up with local farmers and food systems. In areas affected by conflict or insufficient food production the regular school feeding may be used. HGSF will shorten the logistical chains, provide market access for local smallholder farmers and create jobs for young people and women. WFP estimates that for every 100,000 schoolchildren on school meals, 1,377 direct jobs are created. The areas of intervention will be adapted to localities with high influx of displaced people. Constant monitoring via local conflict sensitivity assessments with local partners will be undertaken to ensure \"Do no harm\" and be able to flexibly adapt the scope of the operation, as needed."}, {"bbox": [97, 1258, 1134, 1538], "category": "Text", "text": "**Example:** Smallholder farmers will benefit from a holistic approach: as far as possible, the school feeding programme will be aligned with existing smallholder farmer-focused activities of the EU (Team Europe Initiative Food security, IM 2) and of EU MS and other donors. The TEI will provide *supply-side support* through e.g. the provision of inputs (seeds, fertilizer etc.) to farmers, training, equipment and climate-smart technologies to increase production. The school feeding programme will provide *demand-side support* creating reliable markets for local farmers with a steady demand. This market access will enhance opportunities for steady income sources and investment by smallholders. It will also recruit, train and equip local women and youth as food suppliers (including for vegetables and fruit), food processors or cooks in the schools."}, {"bbox": [1023, 1679, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 45"}]