{"id":203265,"date":"2025-07-25T21:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-home-grown-solutions-sierra-leones-school-meals-start-a-new-chapter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:23:51","slug":"sierra-leone-home-grown-solutions-sierra-leones-school-meals-start-a-new-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-home-grown-solutions-sierra-leones-school-meals-start-a-new-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Home-Grown Solutions &#8211; Sierra Leone&#8217;s School Meals Start a New Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">How a WFP-supported drive for greater food self-sufficiency fights hunger and changes lives in the West African country<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In Sierra Leone&#8217;s northern Kambia district, the morning sun casts a golden hue over a milling hub, where farmer Isata Feika Sesay fills sacks with locally produced rice &#8211; helping to meet an ambitious national goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The amber-coloured grains, milled with a machine donated by the World Food Programme (WFP), will be heading to some of the more than 1,000 government-assisted primary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a WFP-supported drive for greater food self-sufficiency fights hunger and changes lives in the West African country In Sierra Leone&#8217;s northern Kambia district, the morning sun casts a golden hue over a milling hub, where farmer Isata Feika Sesay fills sacks with locally produced rice &#8211; helping to meet an ambitious national goal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,23408,16923,6572,7271,7835,257,4362,6571,1135,16100,254,7138],"class_list":["post-203265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-homegrown","tag-leone","tag-leones","tag-meals","tag-news","tag-school","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-solutions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}