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Food poverty and access
Increasingly community food initiatives across Scotland have been 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 has grown rapidly.
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 view of this, the Scottish Government recently held a consultation on Ending the Need for Food Banks. The CFHS/PHS response to this can be found here.
Our plan for 2024/2025
CFHS is currently working with the Scottish Government, community food networks and our colleagues in Public Health Scotland to plan how the community food sector can be supported in the future.
News and updates
What can community food initiatives do to support cash first approaches to food insecurity?
Ending the Need for Food Banks consultation
Guest blog: Katy Gordon discusses the different approaches that two local areas in Scotland took to tackle food access and food insecurity last summer.
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