This document outlines the agenda and notes from a meeting in Belfast about addressing food poverty. The meeting discussed introducing a right to food, presented findings from a commission on food and poverty in the UK, and debated whether to launch a right to food campaign or a broader food justice movement. Attendees considered potential names for a campaign and next steps to take collaborative action on tackling structural causes of food insecurity in Belfast.

1. A right to food?
Beyond foodbanks?
11 January 2016
#BelfastEIE

2. Programme
13.30 Welcome - Cllr Julie-Anne Corr Johnston, Belfast City Council
13.40 Enough is Enough – Belfast’s response to food poverty
Liz Mitchell, IPH and Belfast Food Network
14.00 Introduction to purpose of event
Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on Poverty
14.10 Introducing the Right to Food
Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on Poverty
Discussion: What excites you about it?

3. Programme
14.30 The Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty’s findings
Geoff Tansey, Chair of the Commission
Discussion: how do their findings chime with the issues we are facing
locally?
15.00 A right to food/beyond foodbanks campaign or food justice movement?
Discussion: what kind of action are we up for taking together?
15.30 What could we call the campaign? Where next?
16.30 Close and depart

4. Welcome
Cllr Julie-Anne Corr Johnston
People and Communities
Committee
Belfast City Council

5. Enough is Enough – Belfast’s
response to food poverty
Liz Mitchell
IPH & Belfast Food Network

6. ‘Enough is enough’
Belfast’s response to food
poverty
Liz Mitchell, IPH
Convener of Food Poverty Working
Group for Belfast Food Network

7. 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

8. 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

13. 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

14. Enough is enough event 22 Oct 15

16. Previous event – 22 October 2015
http://www.publichealth.ie/news/event/enough-
enough-building-belfasts-response-food-poverty

17. Purpose of event and the right to food
Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on
Poverty
Discussion: What excites you about it?

18. The Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty’s
findings
Geoff Tansey, Chair of the Commission
Discussion: how do their findings chime with the
issues we are facing locally?

19. A right to food/beyond foodbanks
campaign or food justice movement?
Discussion: what kind of action are we up
for taking together?

20. What could we call the campaign?
Where next?