A right to food?Beyond foodbanks?

11 January 2016#BelfastEIE

Programme 13.30 Welcome - Cllr Julie-Anne Corr Johnston, Belfast City Council13.40 Enough is Enough – Belfast’s response to food poverty

Liz Mitchell, IPH and Belfast Food Network14.00 Introduction to purpose of event

Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on Poverty14.10 Introducing the Right to Food

Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on PovertyDiscussion: What excites you about it?

Programme14.30 The Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty’s findings

Geoff Tansey, Chair of the CommissionDiscussion: how do their findings chime with the issues we are facing locally?

15.00 A right to food/beyond foodbanks campaign or food justice movement? Discussion: what kind of action are we up for taking together?

15.30 What could we call the campaign? Where next?16.30 Close and depart

WelcomeCllr Julie-Anne Corr Johnston

People and Communities Committee

Belfast City Council

Enough is Enough – Belfast’s response to food poverty

Liz MitchellIPH & Belfast Food Network

‘Enough is enough’Belfast’s response to food poverty

Liz Mitchell, IPHConvener of Food Poverty Working

Group for Belfast Food Network

What do we mean by food poverty?

“inability to have an adequate and nutritious diet … due to issues of the access to and affordability of food … with related impacts on health, culture and social participation.”

Friel and Conlon 2004

What are our aims?

• Increased access to affordable healthy food in Belfast

• Fewer people experiencing food poverty in Belfast

• Place food poverty on the policy agenda

Enough is Enough Food Poverty

Recommendations

• Rights-based approach • Address the structural causes • Advocacy• Widening the debate• Promoting availability of fresh, healthy

food• Data collection and measurement

Enough is enough event 22 Oct 15

Previous event – 22 October 2015

http://www.publichealth.ie/news/event/enough-enough-building-belfasts-response-food-poverty

Purpose of event and the right to foodNiall Cooper, Director, Church Action on

PovertyDiscussion: What excites you about it?

The Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty’s findings

Geoff Tansey, Chair of the CommissionDiscussion: how do their findings chime with the

issues we are facing locally?

A right to food/beyond foodbanks campaign or food justice movement? Discussion: what kind of action are we up for taking together?

What could we call the campaign? Where next?