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Produce more food or grow more

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use soil and land wisely to grow food

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People who waste food must give food to other pw

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DO NOT WASTE ANY FOOD

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Give food to people each month

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By Duke Storen, Share Our Strength
Child Nutrition Reauthorization offers a rare opportunity for bi-partisan reform to make it easier for communities to end childhood hunger. The programs that provide healthy food to hungry children already operate through public-private partnerships across the country. By building on successful state practices, eliminating red tape and increasing program efficiency, more churches, schools, and other community organizations will be able to connect additional children to healthy meals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has worked to streamline programs like summer meals and afterschool meals, but reauthorization is an opportunity to take a step back and make sure the infrastructure that provides healthy foods for low-income children meets today's demand as efficiently and effectively as possible.

For example, a church that feeds children meals afterschool and during the summer must negotiate two different programs-the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). These programs have different requirements, meal patterns, reimbursement rates, and are often housed under different state agencies. These complications make it difficult for many churches to operate these programs despite the desire to offer them and the need in the community.

Many kids who rely on school meals go hungry in the summer months when they lose access to those meals. Low-income families also say their grocery bills are, on average, about $300 higher every month when kids are out of school.

Besides eliminating red tape, nutrition programs also need greater flexibility to respond to local circumstances and demands. For example, the current programs feeding children afterschool and in the summer require kids to come to a site instead of bringing food to them.

Eighty percent of children spend their time during summer at home and 86 percent spend their time after school at home. In order to expand existing summer and afterschool programs, we need to meet children where they are during out-of-school times.

Recently, USDA undertook a demonstration project that both eliminated red tape and increased flexibility related to summertime meals for kids. Many kids who rely on school meals go hungry in the summer months when they lose access to those meals. Low-income families also say their grocery bills are, on average, about $300 higher every month when kids are out of school.

Instead of trying to meet unmet demand by creating new programs - i.e. summer meals sites - families with children who received a free school lunch during the school year had an additional monetary benefit placed on their SNAP or WIC card. This allowed the family to have enough resources to feed their children at home during summer months. The project resulted in more children receiving the food they need during summer months, illustrating the power of increased flexibility and paperwork reduction.

As we approach Child Nutrition Reauthorization, we have an opportunity to ask the following questions and develop policy proposals based on discussions with participants, practitioners, and policymakers.

How can we eliminate red tape in the child nutrition programs?

Can we reduce the number of child nutrition programs to one or two (in-school and out-of-school) operated by a single agency in each state? How do we ensure that children only have to qualify once and sponsors only have one set of administrative, meal, and reporting requirements?

Should the requirement for children to eat meals together on site (the congregate feeding requirement) be waived?

The ideal location to serve summer meals to low-income children may be in a safe, supervised enrichment program, but the current infrastructure and barriers limit our ability to reach kids this way. States should have the option to implement alternative program models such as the summer EBT demonstration, home-delivered meals, and backpack programs. A USDA pilot testing meal delivery showed that adding non-congregate options in rural areas added to the number of children receiving meals without reducing participation at nearby congregate programs.

How do we build on state efforts to expand school breakfast?

States including Maryland, New Mexico, and Colorado have enacted policies to institutionalize innovative breakfast models. These policies require schools with a large percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals to serve breakfast "after the bell." National policy could build on these efforts by requiring breakfast after the bell in low-income or possibly all schools and/or by providing financial incentives for universal feeding.

Each child deserves the opportunity to live in dignity and thrive. Let's work together to make sensible policy changes that invest in our children and our nation's future. We can make No Kid Hungry a reality in America. To learn more, visit NoKidHungry.org.
Duke Storen is the senior director for partner impact & advocacy with Share Our Strength, whose No Kid Hungry campaign is working with churches, private citizens, public officials, nonprofits, business leaders and others to end childhood hunger by connecting kids to the national nutrition programs.

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Federal Policy Ideas to End Childhood Hunger

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By Duke Storen, Share Our Strength Child Nutrition Reauthorization offers a rare opportunity for bi-partisan reform to make it easier for communities to end childhood hunger. The programs that provide healthy food to hungry children already operate through public-private partnerships across the country.

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SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND RESILIENT AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
Target 2.4 to ensure land and soil improves to grow more food.

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DOUBLE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND INCOMES OF SMALL-SCALE FOOD PRODUCERS
Target 2.3 grow more food for people

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END ALL FORMS OF MALNUTRITION
Target 2.2 to make sure people don't waste food that other people

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UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO SAFE AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD
Target 2.1 to ensure everyone was food every month

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#Envision2030 Goal 2: Zero Hunger | United Nations Enable

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Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Policy Briefs and Infographics Ending poverty and hunger for all persons with disabilities (Goals 1 and 2) | Infographic Targets By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.