o Supporting the revision of national legislation on school food and nutrition

FAO uses a school food and nutrition (SFN) approach to support countries in looking holistically at their school policies and programmes and finding strategic synergies to enhance impact on diets, child nutrition, local food systems and sustainable development. This approach is rooted in creating an enabling policy, legal and institutional environment for holistic, multisectoral and synergistic school programmes and policies that deal with food and nutrition. The success of holistic approaches to food and nutrition in schools depends, to some extent, on adequate legal and institutional frameworks and public policies. A human rights approach should be used. This should set the foundations for countries’ compliance with their international human rights obligations and raise greater public awareness of children’s rights. Legislation should establish clear institutional responsibilities and inclusive participation and coordination mechanisms among the different stakeholders involved, as well as encourage adequate budget allocations and a framework for monitoring and enforcement. The Law on School Feeding in Guatemala (Decree Nº 16-2017) was promoted by the Parliamentary Front against Hunger of Guatemala. The alliance between the Parliamentary Fronts and FAO was key for the enactment of the law, after national discussions. FAO provided technical assistance to enhance the legislative proposals and establish dialogue between national stakeholders, advocating for the importance of such legal tools to ensure the right to food of schoolchildren.