Sustainable Food Places Update

In 2022/23, our Public Health Nutrition Team have continued to act as advisors and provide support for the development of Sustainable Food Partnerships. Food Partnerships take a systems approach to food. This means working across a range of issues and levels that are interconnected e.g. food access and production, improving affordability of food, reducing diet-related disease, food education, catering and procurement, prevention of and redistribution of food waste.

The Health Improvement Fund (HIF) provided a grant to Forth Environment Link for £30,000.00 (August 2022 to March 2023) to support regional food co-ordination. A key priority of the work to date has been resourcing voluntary and community sector organisations working on food security, with £1.7 million investments being brought into Forth Valley for Food work linked to this investment.