Delivering Public Health
Food & health: Cross-sector approaches approaches 5 June 2014
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Welcome & Chair’s Introduction Jo Wilson
Head of Policy, Future of London
Agenda 8.30
Arrivals and refreshments
9.00
Chair’s welcome – Jo Wilson
9.10
Making a healthy food system – Martin Caraher
9.25
Pan-London perspective – Jonathan Pauling
9.40
Developing a local strategy – Sharon Strutt
9.55
Community-led projects – Meghan Zinkewich-Peotti & Jo Revett
10.10
Q&A and discussion
10.30
Coffee and networking
11.00
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Delivering Public Health
Food & health: Cross-sector approaches Martin Caraher
Professor of Food Policy, City University
Martin Caraher Professor of Food and Health Policy Centre for Food Policy City University London EC1V OHB m.caraher@city.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7040 4161
WHO IS INVOLVED IN MAKING A HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEM? GLOBAL TO LOCAL.
The new poverty is obesity combined with hunger
• 5%
45% 20%
of humanity consume
while the poorest
of all meat and fish,
consume only
5%.
• This inequity will shift to within countries, middle income groups in Kampala or Beijing will have more in common with their middle income equivalents in London or Porto.
•
Source: WTO
UK, US and Australia • In these three countries poverty is increasing but inequality is also increasing • London is widening the inequality gap with the rest of the country • Within London inequalities are increasing
Sir Michael Marmot noted that for every tube stop between Westminster and West Canning life expectancy decreases by one year. Even in the most prosperous of cities, health inequalities are pronounced. The geography of inequality reaches all levels and must be seen as the geography of injustice. So a loss of 12 years of life‌
London poverty
2011–12, 2.1 million people in London were in poverty. This 28% poverty rate is seven percentage points higher than the rest of England. Incomes in London are more unequally spread than in any other region. It contains 16% of the poorest decile of people nationally and 17% in the richest decile.
• 2011–12, 2.1 million people in London were in poverty. • This 28% poverty rate is seven percentage points higher than the rest of England. • Incomes in London are more unequally spread than in any other region. • It contains 16% of the poorest decile of people nationally and 17% in the richest decile.
This map shows the boroughs of London resized according to the total number of healthy eating adults in the years 2006 to 2008.
Density of Fast Food Outlets and percentage of year 6 children who are obese
Density of Fast Food Outlets location of secondary schools Haringey & indices of multiple deprivation (IMD).
But‌ 97% HH within 10mins walk of FFO
Food prices and changes • Between 2007 and 2012 food prices rose 20%. NO downward trend…. Some stabilisation of prices this year in some commodities.
• Between 1998 and 2009 household income for low income households rose 22% to £208/week before housing costs but food prices rose by 33%. • We estimated that a low income family would be disproportionally effected by a 5% increase by about 40%
Food prices based on a presentation and submission to the London Mayor and the London Food Board - Updated
• The share of spend on food by all households rose more gradually from 10.5% in 2007 to 11.2% in 2010, • Processed foods have risen the most since June 2007, with a 15% rise in the year to June 2012, exacerbated by global climate and national (UK) climate issues, we went from having the driest Spring on record to one of the wettest Summers.
For low income households • Households saved an average of 4% between 2007 and 2010 by trading down to cheaper products and different supermarkets. • While trading down to cheaper products has helped many people offset some of the food price rises, low income households have not managed to trade down, possibly as they were already buying cheaper products. • The lowest income decile (bottom 10%) on average bought less food rather than trading down. Energy content of their household food fell 8.7% between 2007 and 2010, as they cut back on bread, cereals, biscuits, cake, beef, fruit and vegetables. • Falling income (after housing costs) and rising food prices produced a double effect, reducing food affordability by over 20% for lowest income decile households. • Low-income households bought more alcoholic drinks despite food price rises, possibly because prices for alcoholic drinks rose less than prices of food.
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• They spend 16% or £2.57 per person/week on fruit and veg and this to meet healthy eating guidelines should be 33%.
So
American Dietetic Association, 2010 “the ability acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways”, and “ a sustainable food system that maximizes self-reliance and social justice without resorting to emergency food sources”
The last word Mark Winne (2009) Closing the Food Gap: resetting the Table in the land Of Plenty Beacon Press, Boston • P 186 school food is a measure of how we value our kids
• P 184 In the same vein we must seriously examine the role of food banking, which requires that we no longer praise its growth as a sign of our generosity and charity, but instead recognize it as a symbol of our society’s failure to hold government accountable for hunger, food insecurity and poverty.
So • So who makes decisions about London food- the food industry and by default ‘poverty’. • Projects not enough!!!! • Planning needs to come to the fore to direct planning for a healthy food system. Industry will do what industry does. • Need regulation + projects
• Tackle inequality • Public health crises
Delivering Public Health
Food & health: Cross-sector approaches Jonathan Pauling
Principal Policy Officer, Greater London Authority
H E A LT H Y & S U S TA I N A B L E FOOD FOR LONDON The food programme at the GLA
London Food Board
C A P I TA L G R O W T H
E V E RY S C H O O L A F O O D GROWING SCHOOL
FOOD HIGH STREETS
TA K E AWAY S T O O L K I T
GOOD FOOD FOR LONDON REPORT 2013
F O O D WA S T E
SCHOOL FOOD PLAN FLAGSHIP BOROUGHS
FIND OUT MORE • Contact: Jonathan.Pauling@london.gov.uk
• Phone: 020 7983 4595
Delivering Public Health
Food & health: Cross-sector approaches Sharon Strutt
Head of Neighbourhood Regeneration, LB Enfield
Garden Enfield Feeding the 21st Century City
Striving for excellence
www.enfield.gov.uk
Portrait of the Borough
Challenges
Opportunities
• Unemployment
• Land
• Child poverty • Skills gap
• Mayor’s Regeneration Fund • Delivery Partners • Ambition
Historical Context
Hills Nursery, Crescent Road N9 circa 1920s
Garden Enfield Vision Statement To develop a vibrant and sustainable market gardening industry by creating a centre of excellence for locally grown food to feed London and the UK as well as developing new opportunities for training, skills and employment generation for Enfield residents.
Garden Enfield • Commercial
• Centre of Excellence • Community Growing
Commercial Growing
Centre of Excellence
Community Growing
Grow your own in schools
Farming Innovation
Forty Hall Farm Market Garden
Volunteers
Enfield Veg Co.
Outcomes
Thank you Please visit our website for more detail: www.gardenenfield.gov.uk www.enfieldveg.co.uk www.fortyhallfarm.org.uk
Delivering Public Health
Food & health: Cross-sector approaches Meghan Zinkewich-Peotti and Jo Revett Neighbourhood Partnerships Managers, Sanctuary Housing Association
Food and health: Cross-sector resources Meghan Zinkewich-Peotti & Jo Revett Neighbourhood Partnerships Managers
• Sanctuary Housing, part of Sanctuary Group, manages general rented, sheltered and shared ownership accommodation across England. • Established in 1969, Sanctuary Group is responsible for the provision of social housing, care and management services across England and Scotland. • It owns or operates over 96,000 units of accommodation and employs more than 10,600 people.
Food, Health & Social Housing • Food growing initiatives on social housing owned land • Community Cafes • Training, skills, volunteering and employment – Accredited food safety & hygiene – Healthy cooking courses
• Food Bank Referrals
Key Benefits • • • • •
Physical and mental health Access to fresh and affordable food Skills, volunteering and employment Community and environmental benefits Benefits to social landlord
Kingsmead Estate, Hackney • Forever Young over 50s group • ‘Colouring In Kingsmead’ project • Support from Sanctuary- access to land and grant funding
Gascoyne Estate, Hackney • Residents group created Madiba Gardens • Support from Sanctuary- access to land, employee volunteering, support to apply to Transform Edible East (Groundwork London, The City Bridge Trust, Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food)
Community Cafés • Haringey- Filling The Gap use surplus food from Fareshare and have local volunteers who help • Hackney- Kingsmead & Morningside- two popup community cafes in our community centres with initial support from Social Kitchen
Training, skills, volunteering and employment • Residents receive training to volunteer at the community cafes such as Accredited Food Safety & Hygiene • Filling The Gap deliver Healthy Cooking Courses to Sanctuary residents in Haringey
Food Banks • Referral agency for the food banks in Hackney, Haringey and Westminster so that we can help our residents who find themselves in crisis.
Read more‌Edible Estates • A good practice guide to food growing for social landlords by the National Housing Federation with Neighbourhoodsgreen, PAFL and Capital Growth
Thank you!
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