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Fare Choice Issue 68

February 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.

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Fare Choice Issue 66

Scottish Older People’s Taskforce; REHIS Elementary Food and Health course; foodwork in working families; exploring how community food initiatives are responding to the need for emergency food aid. This issue also includes an insert launching our annual development fund and outlining what last year’s recipients of the fund have been up to.  

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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.

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Far reaching fare

This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.

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Fare Choice Issue 62

NHS Health Scotland; sustainability; food as an action focus; inequalities; food poverty

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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.

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CFHS networking conference 2012: key themes from the table discussion

The CFHS annual networking conference took place at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on Wednesday 7 November. On the right track?  brought together everyone who has a role or interest in community food and health activity that addresses health inequalities in Scotland.  The conference programme featured three separate parts: a discussion kicked off by Dr. Deirdre …

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Footing the bill or thinking ahead

Notes from a round table discussion held on 31 July on ‘constructive food and health policy and practice in the face of austerity’.

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Hard to Stomach

Recommendations sought by the Scottish Government from a working group on food access and affordability, supported by CFHS, were sent to Ministers shortly before the recent election campaign. The report produced by the group involved representatives from community and voluntary organisations in Edinburgh, Lanarkshire, Fife and Dumfries and Galloway.

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Understanding food culture in Scotland and its comparison in an international context

The purpose of this project was to explore how contemporary food cultures influence diet in Scotland and to provide possible pointers to future food and health policy development in Scotland. The report makes a range of recommendations for addressing food culture in future.

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