The Gambia

Training session participants listen carefully to one of the lessons on school garden management. WFP / Isatou Nasir Cham

WFP School Gardens in The Gambia Boost Nutrition and Learning

WFP in The Gambia supports schools gardens through its school feeding programme. The gardens provide vegetables for school meals and are an opportunity for students to learn through doing.

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Overview

The Gambia has a predominantly subsistence agrarian economy and remains a least developed and low-income, food-deficit country, with a total population of 1.7 million. It is ranked 151st out of 169 countries in the 2010 United Nations Human Development Index, with a per capita GDP of US$329 (2008) and has 63 percent of the population living below the poverty line. 

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Country at a glance 2012
Planned Beneficiaries0
Beneficiary needs (mt)18,217
Beneficiary needs ($US)14,976,597
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