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Strengthening Local Food Systems - free workshop

  • Venue: The Core, Science Central, Newcastle, NE4 5TF
  • Start: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:00:00 GMT
  • End: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Free Workshop for Local Authority Practitioners and Voluntary Sector Partners

The School of Public Health Research team, including Fuse: the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, is undertaking a project on how local authorities can identify, use and evaluate existing policy levers and interventions to shape a ‘healthier’ food system.

As part of this research we are organising a half-day workshop to discuss food system approaches with partners, and to explore how this research might help to improve the local food environment.

This workshop is aimed at local authority practitioners, councillors and voluntary sector partners who have an interest in, or whose work impacts on, the local food systems including those involved in environmental health, trading standards, public health, planning, local food partnerships and other areas of practice and decision making.

We would like to invite you to this free half-day workshop, and also ask if you would share this invitation with colleagues who might be interested in attending or contributing to the project.

To register please complete the Fuse registration form

Workshop highlights will include:

  • Introduction to the “Strengthening local food systems” project; presentation and discussion of key local food interventions identified across multiple policy sectors - from trading standards and environmental health, to waste management and planning
  • Networking opportunities, coffee and lunch
  • Workshop discussion sessions to share practice with other local colleagues including:
    • What are the key food interventions or policy levers at a local level?
    • What does a systems perspective add to a local food strategy?
    • How can you evaluate food systems approaches?

Please feel free to contact Amelia Lake (amelia.lake@tees.ac.uk) or Suzanne Spence (suzanne.spence@ncl.ac.uk) if you would like any more information about the workshop or the research (http://sphr.lshtm.ac.uk/local-food-systems/).

 

 

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