Zamfara transforming education through school meals — IFPRI, WFP

On the education front, Governor Lawal also received accolades from international stakeholders. 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,” the internati