1st Edition

Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets Promoting Biodiversity, Food and Sustainable Nutrition

    344 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    344 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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

    1. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
    2. STEPHANIE ALEXANDER KITCHEN GARDEN FOUNDATION 

    3. Reviving Local Food Systems in Hawai’i
    4. NANCY REDFEATHER, ELIZABETH COLE 

    5. Food Plant Solutions: School Gardens in Vietnam
    6. KARALYN HINGSTON, NATALIE CHING 

    7. Preserving local cultural heritage through capacity building for girls in the Moroccan High Atlas
    8. POMMELIEN DA SILVA COSME 

    9. Learning gardens cultivating health and wellbeing – Stories from Australia
    10. PETER DAWE, ANTHEA FAWCETT, TORRES WEBB 

    11. African leafy vegetables go back to school: farm to school networks embrace biodiversity for food and nutrition in Kenya
    12. AURILLIA MANJELLA, ALESSANDRA GRASSO, VICTOR WASIKE

    13. Grow to learn – Learning gardens for Syrian children and youth in Lebanon
    14. NINA LAURIDSEN

    15. School gardens (māra); todays’ learning spaces for Māori
    16. NICK ROSKRUGE

    17. Intergenerational transfer of knowledge and mindset change through school gardens among indigenous children in Meghalaya, North East India
    18. MELARI SHISHA NONGRUM 

    19. Laboratorios para la Vida: Action research for agroecological scaling through food- and garden-based education
    20. BRUCE G. FERGUSON, HELDA MORALES

    21. Agrobiodiversity education: The inclusion of agrobiodiversity in primary school curricula in Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR
    22. CHINDA MILAYVONG, KEVIN KAMP, MANIVANH ALIYAVONG 

    23. Katakin kōṃṃan jikin kallib ilo jikuul - Republic of the Marshall Islands School Learning Gardens Program
    24. KOH MING WEI, SAMUEL BIKAJLE

    25. Where the wild things are
    26. AYFER TAN, NEŞE□ADANACIOĞLU,□SAADET□TUĞRUL□AY, MALEK BATAL, HALA GHATTAS, SALMA TALHOUK

    27. Slow Foods 10,000 gardens – Cultivating the future of Africa
    28. REGULI DAMAS MARANDU, JOHN KARIUKI MWANGI, SAMSON KIIRU NGUGI, EDWARD MUKIIBI 

    29. The integration of food biodiversity in school curricula through school gardens and gastronomy in Brazil

    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.