Welcome to Healthy Food for All

Healthy Food for All is an all-island initiative seeking to combat food poverty by promoting access, availability and affordability of healthy food for low-income groups. 

This website is designed to act as an information and networking resource for anyone interested in food poverty and its relationship with food and nutrition policy, health inequalities, welfare adequacy, educational disadvantage, food production and distribution, retail planning and food safety.

Our key areas of work are:

• Community Food Initiatives
• School Food Initiatives
• Policy

We have launched!

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Community Food Initiative Programme 2013-15 in Belfast on 11th April, 2013. Thank you to safefood for funding these wonderful Community Food Initiatives. Our role now is to work with these successful initiatives, helping them develop their projects and combat food poverty over the next three years. Watch this space for news and updates. For more information please click here and contact Georgina at gbuffini@healthyfoodforall.com

Footprints Women's Centre, Belfast One of the seven projects belonging to Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives	Ear to The Ground Food Poverty The Limerick Seed to Plate Project and Healthy Food for All were featured in a wonderful piece on Ear to the Ground on 31st January, 2012.

Approximately 15% of the population experience some type of food deprivation according to EU-SILC figures.  Research into the affordability of healthy eating for low-income groups undertaken by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found that families dependent on social welfare would have to spend one third of their weekly budget on food in order to obtain a healthy diet.  Even though low-income families spend a higher proportion of their income (23-25%) on food compared to other socio-economic groups (17%) they tend to have poorer nutritional intake.  The research found that it is up to ten times cheaper to provide calories in the form of unhealthy foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar than it is in the form of protective foods such as fruit and vegetables and other important foods such as lean meat and fish (FSAI, 2009)