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A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs supported by state and national governments. In Feeding the Future, Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world, starting with the adoption of these programs in the United States and some Western European nations, and then tracing their growth through the efforts of the World Food Program. The primary focus of Feeding the Future is on social policy formation: how and why did school lunch programs emerge? Given that all countries developed education systems, why do some countries have these programs and others do not? Rutledge draws on a wealth of information—including archival resources, interviews with national policymakers in several countries, United Nations data, and agricultural statistics—to underscore the ways in which a combination of ideological and material factors led to the creation of these enduringly popular policies. She shows that, in many ways, these programs emerged largely as an unintended effect of agricultural policy that rewarded farmers for producing surpluses. School lunches provided a ready outlet for this surplus. She also describes how, in each of the cases of school lunch creation, policy entrepreneurs, motivated by a commitment to alleviate childhood malnutrition, harnessed different ideas that were relevant to their state or organization in order to funnel these agricultural surpluses into school lunch programs.   The public debate over how we feed our children is becoming more and more politically charged. Feeding the Future provides vital background to these debates, illuminating the history of food policies and the ways our food system is shaped by global social policy.   

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9780813573328 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 11, 2016, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children.

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9780813573311 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 11, 2016, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. This insightful compendium provides valuable information and assesses the research foundations behind several school initiatives to help combat the epidemic of obesity in children and adolescents, particularly using interventions to increase physical activity...read more
By Hassan (editor)

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9781771881074 | Taylor & Francis, March 20, 2015, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally.

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Product Description: Examines the elimination and regulation of competitive foods, and the introduction of healthy servings and options to menus and vending machines, in public schools, nonprofit private schools and child care facilities.
By Roman Espejo (editor)

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9780737771909 | Greenhaven Pr, October 10, 2014, cover price $27.80 | About this edition: Examines the elimination and regulation of competitive foods, and the introduction of healthy servings and options to menus and vending machines, in public schools, nonprofit private schools and child care facilities.

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9780737771893 | Greenhaven Pr, October 10, 2014, cover price $39.40 | About this edition: Examines the elimination and regulation of competitive foods, and the introduction of healthy servings and options to menus and vending machines, in public schools, nonprofit private schools and child care facilities.

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Product Description: By connecting physical activity with learning, the books in this series provide preschoolers with educational enrichment as they explore, inquire, experiment, and discover. Filled with simple, stimulating games, they will have kids jumping, shaking, rolling, dancing, and clapping as they learn...read more

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9780876594711 | Gryphon House, July 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: By connecting physical activity with learning, the books in this series provide preschoolers with educational enrichment as they explore, inquire, experiment, and discover.

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