Handbook of school nutrition improvement initiative
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2020
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Stunting, underweight and anemia are the main nutritional problems of children in poor areas of China. The handbook reviews school meals programmes across the globe to situate China’s school nutrition project. In 2011 the State Council National Nutrition Improvement Plan for Rural Students Receiving Compulsory Education was implemented in 699 poor counties. Using mobile apps, school data is regularly posted to the initiative’s data platform. To analyze abnormal procurement in a timely manner, the platform monitors the school meals ingredients purchasing price, comparing this with local agricultural products’ market prices, (released by the Ministry of Agriculture during the same period) and gives feedback to relevant departments. (In English and Chinese)
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SCHOOL MEALS, RURAL POVERTY, FOOD SECURITY, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD NUTRITION, NUTRITION, DATABASE, DATA COLLECTION, SCHOOLS, CNINA, FAR EAST ASIA