Nourish Scotland
Edinburgh
Our Right to Food Project
The Our Right to Food project is developing ways to measure the progress towards the right to good quality, affordable food in Scotland. With this funding, Nourish Scotland will extend its existing model to learn from South Asian households. The group will create a ‘persona household’ and then agree on how that household would facilitate food – when, what, and where would different members of this imaginary but believable household eat? The emphasis will be on delivering food is healthy, enjoyable, and a good fit with people’s lifestyles and cultures.
From this set of meals, the group will compile a weekly basket of foods they can cost and use to measure whether a ‘good enough’ diet is accessible for these households. They will also assess the ‘carbon footprint’ of this shopping basket.
Senior Project Officer Irina Martin said, “We are delighted to have been granted a ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’: Community-led award. The Our Right to Food project aims to learn what people in Scotland would choose as a healthy and enjoyable way to eat so that rights holders and decision-makers can better identify how to make this accessible for all.
This award will support the project’s next phase, which will focus on a typical Pakistani household in Scotland and explore whether a ‘good enough’ diet is more or less affordable for different groups within Scotland. The project also hopes to contribute to measuring progress toward achieving the right to food in Scotland.”