Food and Drink

Recipe for health: these youngsters in Ghana can benefit from a project to provide good school meals produced by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

Photographer: Image by PCD - Imperial College London

How School Meals Plan Benefits Africa’s Farmers

5 January 2010

by Ray Cooling, London Press Service

Trade & Industry » Food and Drink

THE United Kingdom is behind an initiative to help improve the lives of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and at the same time to provide healthy meals for the region’s schoolchildren. read more

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