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Publications
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Practitioners who run cooking skills courses have told us that they have worked with course participants who may be experiencing food insecurity and were struggling ...
- In October 2014, CFHS commissioned a group of research scientists to consider questions of food insecurity/poverty in Scotland. The main aim of the research was to ...
- How community food initiatives working to reduce food poverty are delivering a range of services. The publication includes examples of eight community food initiatives that ...
- This report and summary is the product of discussions that included practitioners, planners, policy makers and academics. Discussions centred around viewing emergency food aid as ...
- In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or ...
- The study tour took place between 1 and 3 October 2013. Ten people took part in a busy two days, which included 10 different visits/meetings ...
- This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.
- Notes from a round table discussion held on 31 July on 'constructive food and health policy and practice in the face of austerity'.
Food poverty and access
Increasingly community food initiatives across Scotland are responding to demands for emergency food aid for people experiencing the most severe effects of food poverty. The provision of emergency food parcels through food banks is rapidly growing.
However, balancing the need for short-term emergency food aid with creating sustainable change for people experiencing food poverty is a rising challenge across Scotland.
In response we will be stepping up our food poverty work: promoting good practice through networking across the public and third sectors, and mapping the extent and growth in food poverty.
Our plan for 2019/20
News and updates
What’s in a name? – Redistributing surplus food via Food hubs, food banks, social supermarkets, larders, community fridges and pantries….. Does the label matter?
A snapshot of Covid-19, food insecurity and community food initiatives: What happened and what can we learn?
CFHS blog: Food insecurity research conference – learning from across the globe
Understanding food insecurity in Scotland: using evidence for policy and practice change
Matter of fact
Guest blog: Sue O’Neill-Berest from Cyrenians on food insecurity, cooking and using CFHS development funding to run sessions for young mums
1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health
Time to Digest
New blog post – Pasta with a past: the collective memory and collective consciousness of Scotland’s community food initiatives
Cooking skills blog 33: Working with vulnerable groups: Supporting people affected by food insecurity: ideas from practitioners