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Collaborating around food in the Western Isles

Posted: December 8, 2023

Last April we awarded funding to three organisations to support our pilot learning project, which aimed to build stronger community food work locally. You can find out about one of …

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CFHS e-bulletin October 2023

Posted: November 7, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin contains a very short and easy-to-complete readership survey, news about diet and nutrition and research and policy, as well as reports, latest events and funding. You can …

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So, what do we want from food? Citizens are hungry for change

Posted: November 7, 2023

This new report from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission shows that the UK public overwhelmingly back state intervention to improve the food system. Based on extensive public dialogue sessions …

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Poverty in Scotland 2023

Posted: November 7, 2023

This year’s ‘state of the nation’ report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at in-work poverty and details  recommendations for the Scottish and UK Governments and provides specific findings and …

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A Cash First Future

Posted: November 7, 2023

Launched during Challenge Poverty Week, this report summarises the learning from the joint Cash First Future conference from the Independent Food Aid Network and the Trussell Trust. It includes best practice …

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Food research at the Rowett Institute

Posted: November 7, 2023

The Rowett Institute has a range of research projects currently running that will help inform community food activities. These include projects on food insecurity in people living with obesity, Social …

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Join the Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF)

Posted: November 7, 2023

The recently formed Alliance focuses on research excellence across different disciplines and sectors to deliver focused, concerted actions to facilitate systems thinking and transformative research, to support a sustainable food …

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Menu for All

Posted: November 7, 2023

Edinburgh Community Food recently launched Edinburgh’s new food poverty network. ‘Menu for all’ will combine food and support access aims to give Edinburgh the scalable capacity to respond to need, …

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Child Poverty Hub

Posted: November 7, 2023

A new Child Poverty Learning Hub has been launched by Public Health Scotland – five free courses that aim to provide an overview of the issue as well as outlining …

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CFHS September e-bulletin

Posted: October 3, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on challenging poverty in Glasgow, diet and nutrition, research and policy, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin …

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