CWIN in partnership with NHS Health Scotland and Community Food and Health (Scotland) took part in community-led research into food security. They explored participants’perceptions of food security (eating well) and how to address food insecurity.
Publications
Food Security for All – Community-Led Research
(September 2016)
Publishers: Central & West Integration Network, Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
It’s no Gordon Ramsay
Food security and the experience of coping for two groups; young mothers and single men living in a rural Scottish town
(October 2016)
This research was conducted a by a group of community participant researchers exploring the experience of food security and insecurity and how this was reflected in the choices and attitudes of individuals in their community. It was funded by The work is an ideographic study that applies the principles of Participant Action Research (PAR) and …
Publishers: Borders Healthy Living Network, Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, men, research, women and mothers
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, men, research, women and mothers
Community Led – Good Food Research
(July 2016)
This report describes an NHS-funded/CFHS-supported, community-led research project that explores the relevance of the issue of ‘food security’ to a range of adults, with different life experiences and current life circumstances who live in the area.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Linwood Community Development Trust, NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, food poverty, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, food poverty, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
A snapshot of Covid-19, food insecurity and community food initiatives
What happened and what can we learn?
(July 2020)
In March 2020, the community and voluntary, private and public sectors responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Community food initiatives either closed because of lockdown restrictions or rapidly changed their services to meet a rise in the need for food delivery or food aid services. This snapshot attempts to summarise what happened, and …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Public Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: access, food insecurity, shopping
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: access, food insecurity, shopping
Fare Choice Issue 81
(March 2020)
This is our newest edition Fare Choice 81 – published March 2020, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and news from the community food and health sector. Farechoice Newsletter 81-March 2020
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Publication category: Newsletters
Fare Choice Issue 80
Special offer
(August 2019)
Milestone edition of our regular newsletter, published in August 2019, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news, and features from the community food and health sector. Fare Choice Issue 80
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, older people, policy, social enterprise
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, older people, policy, social enterprise
Fare Choice Issue 79
Special offer
(March 2019)
February 2019 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cooking, food poverty, funding, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cooking, food poverty, funding, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 78
building blocks
(August 2018)
August 2018 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty, funding, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty, funding, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Chopping and changing
evidence and ideas to improve the impact of your cooking skills courses
(March 2018)
This report is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses. It uses evidence from a realist self-evaluation study group to show the impact of cooking skills courses on people who are affected by health inequalities: vulnerable people and parents managing on a low income.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, evaluation
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, evaluation
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Food security, diet and obesity – a community-led research project exploring the experiences of ethnic minority groups
Full Report and Executive Summary
(May 2019)
This community-led research approach builds on a previous CWIN project exploring food security in black and ethnic minority (BME) people in Glasgow. They recruited and trained a team of 12 community researchers to participate in the design and implementation of the research project.
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Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, minority ethnic, research
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Research and evaluation