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SUMMARYThe National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) is one of the government’s social justice and equity initiatives to provide learners in poor schools with nutritious meals that will enable them to progress academically. The programme is funded from the Conditional Grant managed by National Treasury. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, schools closed intermittently, and government suspended the NSNP indefinitely. The Minister of Education announced that when schools reopen, the NSNP will be restored. Conditions over time improved and schools reopened. However, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) reneged on their promise to reinstate the NSNP. This sparked public outcry. Interest groups such as Equal Education, Equal Education Law Centre, and SECTION27 took the Minister of Education to court for violating the constitutional and statutory duties. The outcome of this case had dire consequences for all stakeholders. Using qualitative research within an interpretivist paradigm, we critically analyse the court case between Education Law Centre and Others v The Minister of Education. We also undertake an empirical study in Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. Six school leaders (five principals and one deputy principal) are interviewed to determine their experiences and perceptions of measures taken when NSNP was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three themes emerge, namely the ramifications of COVID-19 on poor parents and children: the schools’ inability to provide nutritious meals to children, and creative ways to help needy children from malnutrition and starvation. Findings reveal that some schools were unable to feed learners, due to financial constraints and lack of capacity, while others found innovative ways to provide learners with nutritious meals.

The research investigates Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meals (FNM) program (2025–2029) as a policy-based nation branding initiative which promotes sustainability and inclusivity and innovation through its communication efforts. The research uses qualitative methods to analyze policy documents and media content and conduct stakeholder interviews to study the FNM program’s dual role as welfare support and strategic communication tool. The research applies nation branding theories and green communication and innovative governance frameworks to identify four core brand identity elements of the program which include ecological (local sourcing and environmental education), social (community participation and empowerment), economic (local multiplier effects and digital transparency), and cultural-symbolic (values of gotong royong and national unity). The research compares Indonesia’s FNM program to international models from Finland, Japan, India and Brazil to show its position in the worldwide initiative that connects welfare services with sustainability and soft power development. The program faces reputational threats because operational problems and food contamination incidents create doubts about its ability to deliver care and demonstrate competence. The FNM program will boost Indonesia’s global reputation as a nation that cares and looks toward the future when the program receives proper management and maintains authentic communication and shows both transparency and performance consistency. This study has succeeded in providing an overview of how to convince international parties that the values contained in Indonesian culture can also be incorporated into government programs to provide welfare for its people.

This study aims to analyze the integration of environmental law principles in designing and implementing Indonesia’s Nutritious Meal Program (MBG) and its impact on environmental sustainability and strengthening the people’s economy. To address malnutrition and stunting, this program is expected to contribute to improved community nutrition, environmental sustainability, and local economic empowerment. This research adopts a normative legal approach by analyzing relevant laws and regulations, government policies, and environmental law principles, including sustainable development, prevention, intergenerational justice, and the integration of food and environmental policies. The findings indicate that achieving sustainability in the MBG Program requires the application of the precautionary principle to mitigate potential environmental impacts, promoting locally based food management, and reducing waste. Additionally, strengthening the people’s economy can be realized by empowering local farmers and MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) in the food sector as integral components of the supply chain. This study is expected to provide recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of nutritious meal programs by prioritizing environmental sustainability and socio-economic justice.

The arrangement enables every individual to have the capacity to set their individual nutritious profile that might be founded on models officially characterized with certain dietary limitations (for example, the measure of salt admission in hypertensive, or the measure of sugar devoured by individuals experiencing diabetes)6. The authors consider their solution a useful tool for physicians and nutritionists to establish a nutritional plan, which takes into account the patient individual needs, thus maximizing its effectiveness. The server part, used to make substance and make them accessible to work the portable customer, is separated into two modules: a web back office, enabling the stage directors to play out all the administration assignments on the accessible substance (items, qualities of the items, healthful profiles, and so forth.) and an API, planned to be devoured by customer mobile arrangement. Bryhni, H. Ruland, CM. and Mirkovic, J. Secure solution for mobile access to patient's health care record. 13th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom).

Acceptance of and preference for a particular food depends not only on its intrinsic (e.g. nutritional) properties but also on expected or recent food experiences. An instance of this type of phenomenon has been called induction effect, which consists of an increased intake of a type of food when it precedes a hedonically preferred food in a sequence familiar to the animal, relative to controls that have access only to the less-preferred food. The purpose of our study was to assess intake induction of a low-nutritious food when followed by different high-nutritious supplements in sheep (Ovis aries). In this experiment, we ran a supplemented phase where animals fed oat hay (a low-nutritious food) in the first part of the daily feeding sessions followed by a supplement with either a high (soya bean meal; group GS) or a low (ground corn; group GC) protein–energy ratio in the second part ate more oat hay than controls that were fed oat hay in both parts of sessions (group GH). In addition, supplemented animals presented a stronger preference for oat hay over alfalfa hay than controls in a subsequent choice. When all animals received no food in the second part of the sessions (Non-supplemented phase), intake of oat hay converged to the control's intake level in all the groups, suggesting that the presence of supplements after access to oat hay was responsible for intake induction. Lastly, we repeated the supplemented phase with a different control group where animals received oat hay in the first part of the sessions and no food in the second part (group NF), thus equalizing groups in terms of the time of access to oat hay in a session. Groups GS and GC still developed higher intake of oat hay than group NF. In both supplemented phases of the experiment, we estimated animals’ daily metabolizable energy (ME) and crude protein (CP) intake. CP intake was higher in group GS than in groups GC, GH and NF, but there was no difference between group GC and the controls. In turn, groups did not differ in ME intake in the First supplemented phase, and only group GS presented higher ME intake than the rest of the groups in the Second supplemented phase. Therefore, a nutritional account of the present induction effect seems insufficient. We propose that a learned association between oat hay and the post-ingestive feedback from the subsequent high-nutritious supplements underlay sheep's intake induction and increased preference for oat hay.

There's a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation's school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap, precooked hamburger patties and chicken nuggets chock-full of industrial fillers. Yet it's no secret that meals cooked from scratch with nutritious, locally sourced ingredients are better for children, workers, and the environment. So why not empower \"lunch ladies\" to do more than just unbox and reheat factory-made food? And why not organize together to make healthy, ethically sourced, free school lunches a reality for all children? The Labor of Lunch aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed. By providing a feminist history of the US National School Lunch Program, Jennifer E. Gaddis recasts the humble school lunch as an important and often overlooked form of public care. Through vivid narration and moral heft,The Labor of Lunch offers a stirring call to action and a blueprint for school lunch reforms capable of delivering a healthier, more equitable, caring, and sustainable future.