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Closing The Gap Solihull Food Strategy Consultation

Closing The Gap Solihull Food Strategy Consultation. Alison Trout Senior Public Health Specialist. Current Situation. Population 200, 000 Takes 50,000 hectares of land to feed us Farm land 50% 21 Allotments Fast food outlets 52.7 per 100,000 people

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Closing The Gap Solihull Food Strategy Consultation

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  1. Closing The Gap Solihull Food Strategy Consultation Alison Trout Senior Public Health Specialist

  2. Current Situation • Population 200, 000 • Takes 50,000 hectares of land to feed us • Farm land 50% • 21 Allotments • Fast food outlets 52.7 per 100,000 people • 3 food banks (one of which is less regular)

  3. Going forward? 2005 Strategy Proposed Strategy Considers health, safety and sustainability Refers to networking, national campaigns, economy, local food, waste, planning Database on eating patterns deemed not cost effective • Health focused not food focused • Does not focus on wider determinants • Does not refer to ethical and environmentally friendly

  4. Some Solihull Highlights • Food For Life Partnership – silver award for school catering • Make and Taste • Three Trees • Healthy Schools and Eco Schools • Food Dudes • Restriction of proliferation of hot food takeaways • Make Every Contact Count

  5. Reduced Food Nutrients 50 Years Ago Food in the 21st Century Increased variety/ nutrients Refined and processed Global Destruction of natural habitats Soil depletion Genetically modified • Low variety • Fewer processed foods • Local • Bio- diversity • Soil high in nutrients • Food smaller, at risk to pests

  6. Ethical Spending on food in the UK Source: Ethical Consumer Markets Report 2012, The Cooperative Group

  7. Local Food DEFINITION: “a system in which foods are grown, produced, or processed and then distributed or sold within a similar area –be it a particular distance from producer to food retailer or consumer, or defined by a geographic area such as a particular distance, municipality, or state” Farmers Markets – 30 Mile radius

  8. Local Food Source: Mintel 2013

  9. Food Waste • UK throws away 7 million tonnes of food and drink each year • Costs the average household £470-£700 a year

  10. Vision “A healthy, safe, sustainable and fair food system for Solihull”

  11. Closing The Gap Solihull Food Strategy Consultation Ian Mather Public Health Senior Consultant

  12. We live in a world shaped by food “We eat to live they live to eat” Our homes and lives revolve around food RJ Over the Hedge

  13. Food and Health

  14. Tackling Health Inequalities Marmot Review Health and wealth are intrinsically linked We need to make systematic improvements focusing on the underlying causes of premature illness and death in poorer communities.

  15. Food and Health • Malnutrition and obesity (over nutrition) • Diabetes • Strokes • Coronary Heart Disease • Cholesterol • Cancers • Cognitive and behavioural problems Annual cost of obesity alone, in Solihull to NHS = £13,636,285

  16. ARRAN WAY “You never see a carrot on the Arran Way” Parent Chelmsley Wood

  17. Food Poverty • 13 million below line of poverty in UK higher than other OECD countries • 2012-13, 350,000 people fed by food banks of which 130,000 were children • Solihull food banks handed out over 3,500 food parcels last year (2013). • Not national lack of food, unequal access, • Utilising food industry surplus and gleaned food - ‘balanced diet’

  18. Good Planning For Good Food • Access to food shops • Diverse retail environments • Restrict takeaways • Protect existing and new allotments /community growing • Growing (new housing and commercial developments) • Supporting farming • Support composting (individual, commercial and community) • Support regional and local supply systems • Support small and independent retailers (Sustain 2011)

  19. Market v’s Supermarket Market Supermarket £10 spent = £14 economic activity Creates half the number of jobs per square foot of retail space • £10 spent = £25 economic activity • £1.00 invested = £6.00 to £8.00 of economic outcomes and social health (New Economics Foundation in London 2006)

  20. Community Action • Community farms, allotments and gardens • Grow products for their own consumption • Sell produce to supplement income • Employment through small businesses • Environmental Education • Community cohesion • Biodiversity and access to nature • Increase inclusion making sites more accessible to people with mobility problems.

  21. Conclusion • Equal access to affordable food reduces health inequalities • Food enriches and brings communities together • Local food is better for the economy

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