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Overview – ‘Just like me’
Liz Mitchell
Belfast Food Network
‘Just like me’
Liz Mitchell
Convener of Food Poverty Working
Group for Belfast Food Network
What do we mean by food poverty?
“inability to have an adequate and
nutritious diet … due to issues of the
access to and affordability of food … with
related impacts on health, culture and
social participation.”
Friel and Conlon 2004
What are our aims?
• Increased access to affordable
healthy food in Belfast
• Fewer people experiencing food
poverty in Belfast
• Place food poverty on the policy
agenda
Enough is Enough Food Poverty
Recommendations
• Rights-based approach
• Address the structural causes
• Advocacy
• Widening the debate
• Promoting availability of fresh, healthy
food
• Data collection and measurement

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Enough is enough Dr Liz Mitchell 22 october 2015

  • 1. Overview – ‘Just like me’ Liz Mitchell Belfast Food Network
  • 2. ‘Just like me’ Liz Mitchell Convener of Food Poverty Working Group for Belfast Food Network
  • 3. What do we mean by food poverty? “inability to have an adequate and nutritious diet … due to issues of the access to and affordability of food … with related impacts on health, culture and social participation.” Friel and Conlon 2004
  • 4. What are our aims? • Increased access to affordable healthy food in Belfast • Fewer people experiencing food poverty in Belfast • Place food poverty on the policy agenda
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8. Enough is Enough Food Poverty Recommendations • Rights-based approach • Address the structural causes • Advocacy • Widening the debate • Promoting availability of fresh, healthy food • Data collection and measurement

Editor's Notes

  1. Food poverty is the “inability to access a nutritionally adequate diet and the related impacts on health, culture and social participation” (Friel and Conlon)
  2. Other key findings Increased Demand for emergency food Increased number of Working people using food banks Increased Demand for food parcels from families with young children
  3. “Tackling food poverty needs to be re-conceptualised not as a cost but as an investment in the future health of vulnerable groups in our society.” Martin Caraher ‘Food Poverty Fact or Fiction?’ Public Health Alliance for the Island of Ireland 2007