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
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.
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.
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
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4th Healthy Scotland Convention; PA training: On Track conference; SCOFF nutrition research; Community Retailing Network; Khush Dil; Question Time; Edinburgh Cyrenians; Happy Heart.
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’.
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 of tackling them together.
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 of individuals in their community. It was funded by The work is an ideographic study that applies the principles of Participant Action Research (PAR) and …