February 2019 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Topic: food poverty
Fare Choice Issue 79
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cooking, food poverty, funding, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 78
August 2018 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty, funding, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Just getting on with it
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 to feed themselves and their families. We wanted to explore this issue further by undertaking a short project to find out: what methods community cooking course practitioners currently use to support those …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, cookery sessions, food poverty, inclusion, low income, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access
Fare Choice Issue 74
February 2017 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, evaluation, food poverty, policy, research
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 71
February 2016 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: case studies, community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 70
Bumper 70th milestone edition of our regular newsletter, published in October 2015, featuring the usual updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector, and also celebrates success and staying our power, both our own and other initiatives.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, food co-op, food poverty, growing and gardening, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
The nature and extent of food poverty/insecurity in Scotland
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 explore the wider context of household food poverty/insecurity (HFI) in Scotland and to develop an understanding of the current level and nature of HFI to inform policy and practice. The …
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, NHS Health Scotland, Rowett Institute
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: community food activity, food poverty, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 69
June 2015 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, conference, food poverty, funding
Area of Work: Information provision
Making the case
This publication focuses on the work of community food initiatives working with older people and will be of use to community food initiatives in building and articulating the case for their work with older people and those considering developing work in this area. It gives an overview of the needs, contexts and strategies engaged in developing food work with …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: diet and nutrition, evaluation, food poverty, inclusion, older people
Areas of Work: Older people, Research and evaluation
Community Led – Good Food Research
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 life experiences and current life circumstances who live in the area.