in many cases it is better to procure the food locally but to target the distribution to those who are already priced out of the market this should not affect prices when foodforeducation programmes offer a greater variety of food as well as nonstaple cereals such as wheat in bangladesh for instance biscuits provided on the school feeding programme opened a new market opportunity for local wheat growers around half of the food goes to africa but around onethird goes to countries in asia and the pacific