Abstract
This paper provides an outline of a new interdisciplinary project called FixOurFood, funded through UKRI's 'Transforming UK food systems' programme. FixOurFood aims to transform the Yorkshire food system to a regenerative food system and will work to answer two main questions: (1) What do regenerative food systems look like? (2) How can transformations be enabled so that we can achieve a regenerative food system? To answer these questions, FixOurFood will work with diverse stakeholders to change the Yorkshire food system and use the learning to inform change efforts in other parts of the UK and beyond. Our work will focus on shifting trajectories towards regenerative dynamics in three inter-related systems of: healthy eating for young children, hybrid food economies and regenerative farming. We do this by a set of action-orientated interventions in schools and the food economy, metrics, policies and deliverables that can be applied in Yorkshire and across the UK. This article introduces the FixOurFood project and concludes by assessing the potential impact of these interventions and the importance we attach to working with stakeholders in government, business, third sector and civil society.
Highlights
There is an urgent need to transform the UK’s food system by placing healthy people and a healthy environment at its core (Bhunnoo & Poppy, 2020)
Around 30% of foods/ drinks consumed by children are during the school day (Rogers et al, 2007) and our focus on these settings aims to reduce inequalities in diet quality and related health early in life and catalyse dietary change more broadly
While it is premature to predict the full implications of our proposed research, we aim to achieve a transformative impact on the Yorkshire food system
Summary
There is an urgent need to transform the UK’s food system by placing healthy people and a healthy environment at its core (Bhunnoo & Poppy, 2020). In the UK, poor diets high in high fat, sugar and salt foods result in 1 in 7 deaths every year, costing the economy £27 billion a year (Public Health England, 2017). Dietary intake in children consistently fails to meet recommendations (PHE, 2019), with many consuming above recommended levels of free sugars and saturated fat and inadequate amounts of fibre, vitamin D, fruits and vegetables. Schools and early years’ settings play a key role in implementing change in the food system (Finegood et al, 2010), and children are powerful drivers of change. Around 30% of foods/ drinks consumed by children are during the school day (Rogers et al, 2007) and our focus on these settings aims to reduce inequalities in diet quality and related health early in life and catalyse dietary change more broadly
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