This digest for national and international officials, educational administrators, teacher trainers, and teachers addresses the purposes and goals of school feeding projects. Projects that both do and do not receive donated food from abroad are considered. The digest is introduced with a discussion of background information. This discussion raises basic questions about school feeding programs and offers tentative replies. The articles that follow concern: (1) educational experiences and learning activities that could be linked to school feeding programs; (2) suggestions for ways to link cognitive interventions to school feeding programs; (3) a proposal for research on the impact of school feeding programs; (4) the development of a relatively simple method to monitor and evaluate school feeding programs; and (5) a school feeding program in Madagascar that was linked to a teacher training program. A statement on the World Food Programme's goals that was made by the program's director in 1986 is appended. (RH)