Vanguard News and The Punch (Nigeria) highlight findings from a recent IFPRI and World Food Programme (WFP) assessment of Zamfara State’s school feeding program, launched in 2025 to address persistent education challenges linked to poverty, insecurity, and weak infrastructure. The articles quote a recent IFPRI piece by Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Asabe Maidawa, and Aisha Ololade, “How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria.”
“On February 2026, a joint team from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Food Programme (WFP), alongside government partners from Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), visited Zamfara. Our mission was simple but urgent: to understand how the state’s school meal program—a recent effort, begun in 2025.”