Access to affordable, healthy, acceptable food is essential for health. We are increasingly eating out of home. And customers are increasingly looking to make healthy and sustainable choices when eating out. The Eating Out, Eating Well Framework and Code of Practice for Children’s menus has been developed by Public Health Scotland and Food Standards Scotland …
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CFHS e-bulletin October 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 access the e-bulletin here.
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So, what do we want from food? Citizens are hungry for change
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 in Birmingham and Cambridge held over the summer, and a new national poll of 2,000 people, the report shows UK citizens across all demographic, age …
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Poverty in Scotland 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 recommendations for industry to work with and support their employees. The report is available on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.
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A Cash First Future
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 examples on promoting a cash first approach to food insecurity in local authorities across Scotland and how these should inform the direction of next steps and Scottish Government actions. …
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Food research at the Rowett Institute
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 Prescribing for Improving Communities Eating practices and Diet and Health Inequalities. You can find out more on the Rowett Institute website
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Join the Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF)
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 and diet system, practices and behaviours in Scotland. It is looking for a broad range of people to shape its activities. Find out more on …
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Tackling Poverty Locally Online Directory
This new resource, created by the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) provides a public searchable database of peer-reviewed local anti-poverty initiatives designed to help policymakers, service users and practitioners learn from the experiences of communities across Scotland and beyond. The Directory can be found on the GCU website.