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Food Poverty Mapping Project in North Manchester January - April 2019 Contents Project overview What is Food Poverty? Health consequences of food poverty Local context Our methodology Recommendations Project

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Food Poverty Mapping Project in North Manchester

January - April 2019

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Contents

  • Project overview
  • What is Food Poverty?
  • Health consequences of food poverty
  • Local context
  • Our methodology
  • Recommendations
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Project aim

To map and identify gaps in provision of healthy food in North Manchester

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Project overview

  • Sow the City commissioned by Winning Hearts

and Minds Programme (Mcr Active)

  • Winnings Hearts and Minds is a Manchester

Health and Care Commissioning and Sport England funded programme to improve people’s long term heart and mental health

  • Programme includes 4 workstreams:

community led approaches, healthy lifestyles, healthy hearts, and healthy minds.

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What is food poverty?

Inability to access healthy and affordable food:

  • Having limited money for food after

paying for other household expenses;

  • Living in areas where food choice is

restricted by local availability and lack of transport;

  • Lacking knowledge, skills, cooking

equipment or space necessary to prepare healthy meals.

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What is food poverty?

Food desert = an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food. Food savannah = access with 10 mins Food oasis = access within 5 mins Food swamp = only access to take away’s in vicinity

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Health consequences of food poverty:

  • Heart disease and stroke
  • Some cancers;
  • Type 2 diabetes;
  • Poor mental health;
  • Poor oral health;
  • Increased falls and fractures in older

people;

  • Low birth-weight and increased

childhood morbidity and mortality

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Our methodology

  • Used a Geographical Information System (GIS)

for mapping.

  • Based on Royal Borough of Greenwich Food

Poverty Needs Assessment 2016.

  • Food retailers selling Fresh Fruit and Vegetable

categorised: Markets, Supermarkets (> 280 sqm), Grocery Stores (< 280 sqm).

  • Fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) = selling at

least 2 products.

  • Accessibility to food retailers measured in

terms of walking distance, defined as 500m distance from the retailer (10 mins walk).

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Our methodology

DESK BASED WORK

Ward boundaries

Develop Geographical Information System (GIS) base map

MCC environmental health retailer data (incomplete)

SITE SURVEY

Visit to shops to check if sell FFV

Verify with local community champions

Discussions with shopkeepers

Develop final maps FINALISE

Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

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Food Poverty Map for North Manchester

9 Wilcock St Manchester M16 7DA Sow the City CIC Ltd Tel: 0161 465 6954 info@sowthecity.org

Project: Food Poverty Mapping Nth Mcr (Hearts and Minds Programme) Date: April 2019 Drawing no: Final

Notes

This is a Food Poverty Map for North Manchester prepared by Sow the City using a Geographical Information System (GIS). The map contains 3 layers of data: 1) Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) data 2015 - a measure of relative deprivation used to rank neighbourhoods across the UK. 2) Food Retailers with a good provision = 5 or more Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (FFV) and Food Retailers with limited provision = 2 or more Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (FFV). 3) Community food growing projects where people can grow fruit and vegetables in a community setting. Accessibility to food retailers is measured in terms of walking distance, defined as 500m distance from the retailer (10 mins walk). The methodology was based on the Greenwich Food Poverty Needs Assessment 2016.

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Moston high street

Mainly take away and fast food outlets

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Ancoats shop

Small range of FFV “Can’t compete with Aldi” (Shopkeeper)

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Collyhurst

Common site in small retailers: onions, garlic and potatoes

  • nly veg available
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Findings

Only a preliminary study and more research is required but there is evidence that:

  • Areas of North Manchester are food deserts

(e.g. some parts of Harpurhey, Clayton, Newton Heath)

  • Market forces mean that small retailers are not

always able to compete with supermarkets on the price of FFV and tend to sell ready meals/ confectionary only with long shelf life and bigger mark up.

  • Whilst supermarkets and Asian/ polish stores

had good provision of FFV smaller shops out of district centres tended to have limited provision.

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Recommendations

  • Collect more information first hand from

people in food poverty (e.g. food banks).

  • Expand the Food Poverty map across

Greater Manchester.

  • Target interventions to tackle food

poverty in food deserts e.g. promote healthy and sustainable food through healthy cooking programmes, improve access to healthy food through community food growing.

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Recommendations

  • Community gardens, farmers markets and

pocket markets are visible and local solutions to tackling food deserts. They can reach people who might not

  • therwise purchase fresh fruit or

vegetables.

  • Community food projects can also target

vulnerable populations and specific service users (hospitals, housing associations, neighbourhood centres, schools, employers).

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Ideas