This mapping exercise was carried out to provide a snapshot of voluntary and community organisations’ activity in relation to maternal and infant nutrition across ethnic minority communities in Scotland.
Topic: baby feeding
Strengthening food work across ethnic minority communities: a focus on maternal and infant nutrition
Publishers: BEMIS Scotland, Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, children, diet and nutrition, mapping exercise, minority ethnic, parents and carers, women and mothers
Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
From the ground up
This report represents a snapshot of community and voluntary sector activity that supported maternal and infant nutrition at a particular point in time – spring 2012.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, diet and nutrition, parents and carers, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Putting Healthy Start on the map
Report from a pilot to promote maternal and infant nutrition and ‘Healthy Start’ in Falkirk
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Forth Valley
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: baby feeding, children, funding, infant nutrition, pregnancy and maternal health, weaning
Area of Work: Families with children
Fare Choice Issue 58
Challenges facing community food initiatives: community cookbooks; Early Years Food and Health project.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, early years, economic crisis, obesity and overweight, pregnancy and maternal health, recipes
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 55
Food practices among low-income mothers with young children; community food initiatives tackling food poverty in Ireland; young people, food and health; Healthy Living Tastes Better
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, early years, food training, low income, minority ethnic, women and mothers, young people
Area of Work: Information provision
0-5 children and parents including infant nutrition
Notes from a roundtable discussion looking at what approaches are being developed to address health inequalities through food from a very early age.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: baby feeding, discussion, early years, infant nutrition, pregnancy and maternal health, weaning
Areas of Work: Families with children, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 30
Breastfeeding Bill; Lothian food and health strategy; SCOFF nutrition research; Gorebridge Health and Regeneration Project; Question Time; Food Standards Agency; Food and Health Council
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, breakfast clubs, Food Standards Agency, Healthy Living initiatives, Islands, Lothians, planning, smoking, welfare
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 24
No Fare conference; breakfast service grants; berry funding; study tour to Dublin; regional strategies seminar; food co-ops; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Redhall Walled Garden.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, co-operative, diet and nutrition, food co-op, Food Standards Agency, Healthy Living initiatives, policy, soft fruit and berries
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 20
Scottish Healthy Choices Award Scheme; small grants scheme 2002; Growing Interest conference; SCOFF nutrition research; Knowetop Community Farm; young people and food safety; Breastfeeding Initiative; information exchange.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, breakfast, farming and city farms, grants, growing and gardening, Healthy Living initiatives, school meals
Area of Work: Information provision
Building blocks and baby steps
This report reflects a short programme of work to investigate the impact and influence of community food intiatives in relation to maternal and infant nutrition.