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.
Topic: women and mothers
Building blocks and baby steps
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
Strengthening food work across ethnic minority communities: a focus on maternal and infant nutrition
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.
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
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
Fare Choice Issue 34
4th Healthy Scotland Convention; PA training: On Track conference; SCOFF nutrition research; Community Retailing Network; Khush Dil; Question Time; Edinburgh Cyrenians; Happy Heart.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: diet and nutrition, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, minority ethnic, obesity and overweight, older people, parliaments, policy, research, women and mothers
Area of Work: Information provision
Healthy Start
Notes from a roundtable discussion on the proposed reforms to the UK’s existing Welfare Food Scheme as outlined in the Department of Health’s consultation document ‘Healthy Start’.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: affordability, baby feeding, free milk and food vouchers, infant nutrition, milk, shops, weaning, women and mothers
Good Enough to Eat?
Briefing paper from joint SCDP/Maternity Alliance seminar held to discuss the range of activity already underway to improve the diet of pregnant teenagers and to identify remaining challenges and ways …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: baby feeding, pregnancy and maternal health, women and mothers, young people
Area of Work: Families with children
It’s no Gordon Ramsay
This research was conducted a by a group of community participant researchers exploring the experience of food security and insecurity and how this was reflected in the choices and attitudes …