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.
Topic: policy
Fare Choice Issue 66
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, cookery sessions, food poverty, policy
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.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, community food activity, diet and nutrition, early years, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Far reaching fare
This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Fare Choice Issue 62
NHS Health Scotland; sustainability; food as an action focus; inequalities; food poverty
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, food poverty, inequalities, policy, sustainability
Area of Work: Information provision
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
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 …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, discussion, food poverty, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
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’.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: discussion, food poverty, inequalities, policy
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
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.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, case studies, community food activity, discussion, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
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.
Publisher: NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: diet and nutrition, food culture, policy
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.