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Healthy Food for All

      Marjo Moonen
          Chair

Belfast, 27th January 2010
Food Poverty

“the inability to access a nutritionally adequate
  diet and the related impacts on health,
  culture and social participation”
                                 (Friel and Conlon 2004 )
What causes it?
Economic: low income / high costs of healthy food
Social: awareness, knowledge, lifestyles
Physical: type of shops in vicinity, transport
Why is food poverty a problem?
health: overweight / obesity, Type 2 diabetes,
cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers,
asthma, etc
Economic: affecting school performance /
personal development - people don’t fulfil their
potential – low-income?
Social / cultural: participation in society
Who is affected by food poverty?

People on low income
Vulnerable groups:
  lone parents,
  migrants,
  older people
How big is the problem?

Overweight & obese
  ROI: adults 64%; children aged 5-12: 22%
  NI: adults 59%; children aged 4.5-5.5: 20-25%
How big is the problem?

In ROI, 16.6% of school children report going
to school or to bed hungry because there is
not enough food at home (Doyle 2009)
In 2008 9.1% of the ROI population were
unable to afford to have family or friends
around for a meal once a month (CSO 2009)
Healthy Food for All
Multi-agency initiative tackling food poverty,
 promoting access, availability and
 affordability of healthy food for low-income
 groups on the island of Ireland.
HFfA working areas

HFfA operates on 3 connected levels:
 Policy
 Networking
 community
Policy and Networking
Policy & advocacy: promoting awareness of
food policy across relevant aspects of public
policy; e.g. briefing doc on affordability of healthy eating for low-
income households

Networking: fostering a learning network to
identify best practice on promoting healthy
food for low-income groups. e.g. directory, website,
network meetings
Community

Support community and sectoral initiatives
  which promote availability and access to
  healthy and affordable food for low-income
  groups.                Important experience &
                              evidence



  Demonstration Programme of Community
              Food Initiatives
Demonstration Programme

3-year programme of 7 projects
Development worker to provide support
Extensive (self) evaluation
Networking & learning from each other
Inform HFfA policy development
Synergy of 3 HFfA levels

  Policy
                     Community



           Network
Thank You!

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Marjo Moonen H Ff A Presentation

  • 1. Healthy Food for All Marjo Moonen Chair Belfast, 27th January 2010
  • 2. Food Poverty “the inability to access a nutritionally adequate diet and the related impacts on health, culture and social participation” (Friel and Conlon 2004 )
  • 3. What causes it? Economic: low income / high costs of healthy food Social: awareness, knowledge, lifestyles Physical: type of shops in vicinity, transport
  • 4. Why is food poverty a problem? health: overweight / obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers, asthma, etc Economic: affecting school performance / personal development - people don’t fulfil their potential – low-income? Social / cultural: participation in society
  • 5. Who is affected by food poverty? People on low income Vulnerable groups: lone parents, migrants, older people
  • 6. How big is the problem? Overweight & obese ROI: adults 64%; children aged 5-12: 22% NI: adults 59%; children aged 4.5-5.5: 20-25%
  • 7. How big is the problem? In ROI, 16.6% of school children report going to school or to bed hungry because there is not enough food at home (Doyle 2009) In 2008 9.1% of the ROI population were unable to afford to have family or friends around for a meal once a month (CSO 2009)
  • 8. Healthy Food for All Multi-agency initiative tackling food poverty, promoting access, availability and affordability of healthy food for low-income groups on the island of Ireland.
  • 9. HFfA working areas HFfA operates on 3 connected levels: Policy Networking community
  • 10. Policy and Networking Policy & advocacy: promoting awareness of food policy across relevant aspects of public policy; e.g. briefing doc on affordability of healthy eating for low- income households Networking: fostering a learning network to identify best practice on promoting healthy food for low-income groups. e.g. directory, website, network meetings
  • 11. Community Support community and sectoral initiatives which promote availability and access to healthy and affordable food for low-income groups. Important experience & evidence Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives
  • 12. Demonstration Programme 3-year programme of 7 projects Development worker to provide support Extensive (self) evaluation Networking & learning from each other Inform HFfA policy development
  • 13. Synergy of 3 HFfA levels Policy Community Network