School Farms: Feeding and Educating Children

School farms can combat hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food and educational opportunities for students to learn, interact with nature, and develop skills. The book explores how school farms can play an essential role in providing sustainable and healthy food for students, promoting the role of educational institutions, and the positive impact of hands-on farming on students' mental and physical wellbeing. It offers a theoretical framework and practical guidance for establishing school farms and community-based gardening projects and an education system that promotes a sustainable and healthy approach to food, agriculture, and the environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 294 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

School farms have the potential to combat hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food, as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills. Hunger is one of the most pressing concerns we face today, and there is a clear need to provide alternative sources of food to feed a fast-growing population. School farms offer a sustainable opportunity to produce food locally, thereby feeding underprivileged students who rely on school meals as an integral part of their daily diet. Approaching the concept of school farms through four themes—problem, people, process, and place—the book demonstrates how they can play an essential role in providing sustainable and healthy food for students, the critical role educational institutions can play in promoting this process, and the positive impact hands-on farming can have on students' mental and physical well-being. Utilizing the authors' personal hands-on experiences and drawing on global case studies, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical guidance to help establish school farms and community-based gardening projects and an education system that promotes a sustainable and healthy approach to food, agriculture, and the environment.

This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of food security, agriculture, healthy and sustainable diets, education for sustainable development, and urban studies. It will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers involved in food policy, developing school and community projects, global health and international development, as well as education professionals.

Weight: 568g
Dimension: 234 x 214 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032009605