FSA review of UK work on food and low income issues. Response by the Food Poverty Project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
Sustain welcomes the Food Standards Agency's decision to investigate the work currently being done throughout the UK at local level to help people living on low incomes to feed themselves and their families. Many people are caught in a vicious circle in which low income leads to poor diet, which in turn leads to long-term poor health, which leads (via impaired educational attainment) to restricted employment opportunities, which lead back to low income. Local food initiatives are set up – sometimes in desperation to break this circle. We feel that this Review examines very sensitively the context in which food projects arise and the way they work. We hope that the questions it raises, and the policy response they give rise to, will lead to coherent measures not just to help food projects to work better, but to help reduce the need for them to be set up in the first place. - Please follow the link below to download the full response -
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Published Wednesday 5 May 2004
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
