1st Edition
Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets Promoting Biodiversity, Food and Sustainable Nutrition
This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating habits and improving nutrition among schoolchildren as well as other benefits relating to climate change adaptation, ecoliteracy and greening school spaces.
Many schoolchildren suffer from various forms of malnutrition and it is important to address their nutritional status given the effects it has on their health, cognition, and subsequently their educational achievement. Schools are recognized as excellent platforms for promoting lifelong healthy eating and improving long-term, sustainable nutrition security required for optimum educational outcomes. This book reveals the multiple benefits of school gardens for improving nutrition and education for children and their families. It examines issues such as school feeding, community food production, school gardening, nutritional education and the promotion of agrobiodiversity, and draws on international case studies, from both developed and developing nations, to provide a comprehensive global assessment.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in promoting agrobiodiversity, sustainable nutrition and healthy eating habits in schools and public institutions more generally. It identifies recurring and emerging issues, establishes best practices, identifies key criteria for success and advises on strategies for scaling up and scaling out elements to improve the uptake of school gardens.
1. School gardens: Multiple functions and multiple outcomes
JULIAN GONSALVES, DANNY HUNTER, NINA LAURIDSEN
2. Schools as a system to improve nutrition
STINEKE OENEMA, LESLEY DRAKE, KAIA ENGESVEEN, ANDREA POLO GALANTE, DANNY HUNTER, DAVID
RYCKEMBUSCH, LUANA SWENSSON, FLORENCE TARTANAC
3. Strategies in integrating food and nutrition in the primary school curriculum
MARIA THERESA M. TALAVERA, AILEEN R. DE JURAS
4. Linking school gardens, school feeding and nutrition education in the Philippines
EMILITA MONVILLE-ORO, IMELDA ANGELES-AGDEPPA, IRISH P. BAGUILAT, JULIAN F. GONSALVES, MARIO V. CAPANZANA
5. School gardens in Nepal: design, piloting and scaling
DHRUBA RAJ BHATTARAI, PEPIJN SCHREINEMACHERS
6. Trees nurture nutrition: An insight on how to integrate locally available tree food and crop species in school gardens
STEPHA MCMULLIN, BARBARA STADLMAYR, ERICK NGETHE, BRENDAH WEKESA, KEN NJOGU, AGNES GACHUIRI, BEN MBAYA, AGNES KATIWA, RAMNI JAMNADASS
7. The role of school gardens as conservation networks for tree genetic resources
FRANCESCA GRAZIOLI, MUHABBAT TURDIEVA, CHRIS J. KETTLE
8. The impact of school gardens on nutrition outcomes in low-income countries
PEPIJN SCHREINEMACHERS, RAY-YU YANG, DHRUBA RAJ BHATTARAJ, BAL BDR RAI, MAMOUNATA SANDAOGO OUEDRAOGO
9. Parent Engagement in Sustaining the Nutritional Gains from School-plus-Home Gardens and School-based Feeding Programs in the Philippines: The Case of Laguna Province
BLESILDA M. CALUB, LEILA S. AFRICA, BESSIE M. BURGOS
10. Scaling up the Integrated School Nutrition Model in the Philippines: Experiences and Lessons Learned
EMILITA MONVILLE-ORO, IMELDA ANGELES-AGDEPPA, IRISH P. BAGUILAT, JULIAN F. GONSALVES, MARIO V. CAPANZANA
Case studies
- The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
- Reviving Local Food Systems in Hawai’i
- Food Plant Solutions: School Gardens in Vietnam
- Preserving local cultural heritage through capacity building for girls in the Moroccan High Atlas
- Learning gardens cultivating health and wellbeing – Stories from Australia
- African leafy vegetables go back to school: farm to school networks embrace biodiversity for food and nutrition in Kenya
- Grow to learn – Learning gardens for Syrian children and youth in Lebanon
- School gardens (māra); todays’ learning spaces for Māori
- Intergenerational transfer of knowledge and mindset change through school gardens among indigenous children in Meghalaya, North East India
- Laboratorios para la Vida: Action research for agroecological scaling through food- and garden-based education
- Agrobiodiversity education: The inclusion of agrobiodiversity in primary school curricula in Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR
- Katakin kōṃṃan jikin kallib ilo jikuul - Republic of the Marshall Islands School Learning Gardens Program
- Where the wild things are
- Slow Foods 10,000 gardens – Cultivating the future of Africa
- The integration of food biodiversity in school curricula through school gardens and gastronomy in Brazil
STEPHANIE ALEXANDER KITCHEN GARDEN FOUNDATION
NANCY REDFEATHER, ELIZABETH COLE
KARALYN HINGSTON, NATALIE CHING
POMMELIEN DA SILVA COSME
PETER DAWE, ANTHEA FAWCETT, TORRES WEBB
AURILLIA MANJELLA, ALESSANDRA GRASSO, VICTOR WASIKE
NINA LAURIDSEN
NICK ROSKRUGE
MELARI SHISHA NONGRUM
BRUCE G. FERGUSON, HELDA MORALES
CHINDA MILAYVONG, KEVIN KAMP, MANIVANH ALIYAVONG
KOH MING WEI, SAMUEL BIKAJLE
AYFER TAN, NEŞE□ADANACIOĞLU,□SAADET□TUĞRUL□AY, MALEK BATAL, HALA GHATTAS, SALMA TALHOUK
REGULI DAMAS MARANDU, JOHN KARIUKI MWANGI, SAMSON KIIRU NGUGI, EDWARD MUKIIBI
ANA ROSA DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS, NÁDIA LÚCIA ALMEIDA NUNES, ALESSANDRA SANTOS DOS SANTOS, CAMILA NEVES SOARES OLIVEIRA, LÍDIO CORADIN, DANIELA MOURA DE OLIVEIRA BELTRAME, NEIO LÚCIO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS
Biography
Danny Hunter is a senior scientist at Bioversity International.
Emilita Monville-Oro is Country Director for the Philippines at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR).
Bessie Burgos is the former Programme Head of research and development at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA).
Carmen Nyhria Rogel is a program specialist in research and development at SEARCA.
Blesilda Calub is a university researcher at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Julian Gonsalves is a senior program advisor at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR).
Nina Lauridsen is a research fellow at Bioversity International.