Workshop slides presented at IUHPE Congress, New Zealand April 2019

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Dr Sonia Nuttman, Dr Rebecca
Patrick, Dr Claire Henderson-
Wilson, Ms Teresa Capetola, Dr
Justin Lawson, Ms Sue Noy
Addressing Food
Related
Challenges to
Promote Human
and Planetary
Health.

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1. To demonstrate how you can
engage with a new set of
approaches to address food related
challenges that consider both the
health of people and the planet.
2. To provide an opportunity for you
to debate the current definition of
‘food security’.
3. To provide you with a ‘how to
guide’ that you can utilise as health
promotion practitioners.
Workshop
Objectives
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3. Health Promotion Practice
The Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) (2009) in their report ‘A
Future for Food’ highlighted the emphasis that the public health sector has
placed on increasing people’s access to nutritious food without any
environmental sustainability considerations.
(Kickbush 2011)

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Food security exists when
all people, at all times, have
physical, social and
economic access to
sufficient, safe and
nutritious food that meets
their dietary needs and
food preferences for an
active and healthy life (FAO
2003, p. 28).
Food Security
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A shift in practice for health promotion?
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(Nuttman 2018)

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Systems Thinking

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• Obesity, undernutrition, and climate
change represent ‘The Global Syndemic’
that affects most people in every country
and region worldwide.
• They constitute a syndemic, or synergy of
epidemics, because they co-occur in time
and place, interact with each other and
share common underlying societal drivers.
• The major systems driving The Global
Syndemic are food and agriculture,
transportation, urban design, and land use.
The Global Syndemic of Obesity,
Undernutrition, and Climate Change
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The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets
from sustainable food systems
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Global food production threatens climate stability and ecosystem
resilience. It constitutes the single largest driver of environmental
degradation and transgression of planetary boundaries. Taken together
the outcome is dire. A radical transformation of the global food system
is urgently needed. Without action, the world risks failing to meet the
UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. The
Commission focuses on final consumption (healthy diets) and production
(sustainable food production.
(Willett et al. 2019, p. 5)

9. Is the right of peoples to
healthy & culturally
appropriate food produced
through ecologically sound
and sustainable methods,
and their right to define
their own food and
agriculture systems – La
Via Campesina
Food Sovereignty

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If you were to design a Planetary Health Plate to
promote a healthy food system for people and
planet – what would it look like?
1. Form groups of 3-4 and take a plate.
2. Choose from the “food basket” a range of
“produce” to create a “planetary plate” which
represents the types, and proportions, of foods
that need to be produced and consumed to reflect
a healthy food system for people and planet.
3. Consider proportions of:
 plant and animal based protein;
 wholegrains;
 fruit and vegetables;
 dairy;
4. Provide a rationale for your Planetary Health Plate
choices.
Activity: Planetary Health Plate
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Planetary Health
Plate
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(Willett et al. 2019, p. 9)

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Four Case Studies
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Health promotion practitioners were broadening
practice to address food insecurity through a food
systems perspective.
Cost of food on a university campus is a significant
barrier to the development of a more sustainable
food culture.
Community gardens provide social inclusion for
marginalised groups and opportunities to develop
food system knowledge and skills.
Focussing on local food systems combines health,
wellbeing and sustainability goals by supporting
local food security and strengthening communities

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How can health promotion support sustainable food systems for
planetary health in your local area?
The Ottawa Charter can help you to consider how you can address food
sustainability against each of the Action Areas:
How can it inform each of the key aspects of the food system?
Activity time!
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Example: Food Production & Harvesting
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15. Reflection
How would you reframe food security in a sustainability
context after having gone through this workshop?
What would you think about doing differently (or building on)
to meet the new definition of promoting human and planetary
health?
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16. References
•Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) (2003), ‘Trade Reforms and Food Security: Conceptualising
the linkages’, Chapter 2. Food security: concepts and measurement, Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations,
Rome.
•Kickbush, I. (1989a), ‘Approaches to an ecological base for public health’, Health Promotion, 4(4), 265-268
•Nuttman, S. (2018), ‘From Paddock to Campus: Exploring the potential role of health promotion in addressing food security
from an environmental sustainability perspective’, PhD Thesis, Deakin University,
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30107855
•Noy, S, Patrick, R, Henderson-Wilson, C, Nuttman, S & Ryan, I (2018), ‘New frontiers in community initiatives to increase
vegetable consumption’, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, First published: 20 September 2018,
https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.207
•Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) (2009), ‘A Future for Food: Addressing public health, sustainability and equity
from paddock to plate’, Public Health Association of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
•Shaw, A, Capetola, C, Lawson, J.T, Henderson-Wilson, C & Murphy B, (2017), ‘The cost of sustainability in higher education:
staff and student views of a campus food culture’, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher
Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-12-2016-0225
•Swinburn, B et al. (2019), ‘The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission
report’, The Lancet, Published Online January 27, 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(18)32822-8
• Willett, W., et al. (2019), Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems, Summary Report of the EAT-Lancet Commission.
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17. •Feel free to contact us:
Health Nature Sustainability Research Group,
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
rebecca.patrick@deakin.edu.au
claire.henderson-wilson@deakin.edu.au