Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy

by Jennifer Geist Rutledge

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813573319
• ISBN13: 9780813573311
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher