Strengthening local food systems through school canteens in Senegal

About this project

When local food systems are well structured and integrated, they can contribute to the resilience of family farming, improve producers' incomes and ensure a healthy and balanced diet for local communities, including school canteens. In Senegal, there continues to be an absence of complete data to track agro-ecological food systems, as well as to ensure a regular supply of quality local products to school canteens. In addition, the current legal framework makes it difficult to integrate local products into the supply of food to school canteens. The aim of this project is to help optimize school canteen supply systems by promoting local agro-ecological production, while guaranteeing that social inclusion and gender equality are promoted. The project aims to strengthen local food systems by optimizing school canteen supply systems that are based on local agricultural production. It takes a systemic, interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder inclusive approach and uses qualitative, quantitative and experimental research methods. The project will diagnose local food systems and school canteen supply systems and analyze them for gender and social inclusion. After identifying and testing innovative solutions, it will develop a plan for sharing knowledge and scaling up best practices at local and national levels. The results will be shared with key stakeholders and applied in two very different areas of Senegal: Rufisque, a peri-urban zone with intensive agricultural systems, and Bignona…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Senegal

Sectors

Agricultural policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributesMaternal, newborn and child health · Also contributes

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110806-001.

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