Further links and resources

Hungry for Change: Fixing the failures in food - House of Lords, Select Committee of Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment, 2020.

The HoL undertook an inquiry into the links between issues related to the UK food system —food, inequality, public health, and sustainability—to identify where interventions (policy, regulatory or fiscal) might be applied, or reinforced, to tackle the serious health, social and environmental damage that is being inflicted by the current food system. These themes are brought together in the resulting report under one central line of inquiry: how to ensure a healthy and sustainable diet can be accessed by everyone.

    • Online version here 
    • PDF version here 

UK National Food Strategy 

To address problems within the food system, ensure the security of our food supply and to maximise the benefits of the coming revolution in agricultural technology, the government proposes to develop a new integrated National Food Strategy. The purpose of the National Food Strategy is to set out a vision for the kind of food system we should be building for the future and a plan for how to achieve that vision.

The purpose of the National Food Strategy is to build on the work underway in the Agriculture Bill, the Environment Bill, the Fisheries Bill, the Industrial Strategy and the Childhood Obesity Plan to create an overarching strategy for government, designed to ensure our food system:

    • delivers safe, healthy, affordable food; regardless of where they live or how much they earn;
    • is robust in the face of future shocks;
    • restores and enhances the natural environment for the next generation in this country;
    • is built upon a resilient, sustainable and humane agriculture sector; and
    • is a thriving contributor to our urban and rural economies, delivering well-paid jobs and supporting innovative producers and manufacturers across the country;
    • does all of this in an efficient and cost-effective way.

Food Strategy Review home page available here. TOR available here. Part One of the report available here.

Faculty of Public Health: The Faculty Position on Food and COVID-19.

Available here

 

MyNutriWeb - National Food Strategy webinars 

 

 The much-anticipated 300+ page National Food Strategy was published in July 2021. It makes 14 key recommendations to the UK government across a wide range of food and nutrition issues, from making diets healthier to food waste to sustainability. It also calls for expanding the role of the Food Standards Agency. 

NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY DIGESTED - this webinar provides an overview of the Strategy. 

NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY: FROM WHAT TO HOW - roundtable discussion, consideration, opportunities, action

 

Eating Better - Serving Better: every meal counts in a climate and nature emergency

 

Local diets have global impacts. Eating Better has developed a new guide and film to support local authorities to serve and source healthier, more sustainable meals

The science is clear: the global food system is a key driver of climate change, deforestation and catastrophic declines in biodiversity. Emissions from the food system are so large that they could, on their own, tip us over the Paris Agreement warming thresholds of 1.5° and 2°C, putting us on the path of dangerous climate change. We can’t tackle the climate, nature and public health crises without addressing food. With the challenges we face, every meal counts.

 

Simply Veg  

The following is a link to the new VegPower: Simply Veg site which has great ideas, recipes, advice and resources to help support families to increase their veg consumption.

Simply Veg

 


Nottinghamshire Childhood obesity Trailblazer Impact reports

Document Title Publication Date
Notts Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Project FOOD club participant report 15 December 2021
Notts Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Project FOOD club Children's Centre staff report 15 December 2021
Nottinghamshire Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Healthy Start Evaluation Summary 15 December 2021

London Food Experience Webinar 18.01.23

Document Title Publication Date
Southwark Good Food Retail and Wholesale project 03 February 2023
Priority Places for Food Index presentation 03 February 2023
City of Westminster Healthy Weight Presentation 03 February 2023

Free School Meals Auto-enrolment webinar - 30.03.23

Document Title Publication Date
Free School Meals Auto-enrolment webinar - 30.03.23 presentation slides and webinar link 25 April 2023

North West Food Insecurity Interventions presentation - Oct 22

Document Title Publication Date
North West Food Insecurity Interventions Oct 22 - PowerPoint slides 01 November 2022

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