- Not many HIAs on food and agriculture internationally
- Challenges of dealing with multiple sectors
- Have a discussion on the issues hopefully
Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Policy, HB 2800 (State Level Policy)
Tia Henderson
What is Farm to school?
- Buying local food
- Educating children about where food comes from and why food is important
- Promoting home grown and local foods
- Involve people in local community garden activities
- $200,000 competitive grant program, reimbursement for school lunches made from local foods and local garden activities
HIA Goals
- Inform Oregon legislative process
- Outline linkages and magnitude of interactions between policy and health outcomes
- Inform Agency plans
- Act as a exemplar for others doing food HIAs
HIA process
- Two advisory committees
- Key informant interviews
- A State wide survey
- Two Community Forums
- Communications Workshop
New methodology aspects:
- Economic analysis - of jobs that would be created
- Looked at food security/insecurity
Findings
- Employment
- Educational for duets and children
- Improved diet and through improved nutrition improved learning at school
- Improve physical activity
- Only produced and processed in state grown food not packaged
- Prioritise the schools
- Develop multi component projects linked to other non health projects/programmes
National Nutrition Standards HIA
- US Secretary of Agriculture is required to establish dietary standar for food in schools.
- Competitive foods - snacks sold in schools; may eat school canteen, bring food from home, etc.
Objectives of HIA
- This is a health focused policy so ingesting to think about the value of doing a HIA
- Aim was to build a much stronger base for action
- Schools consider selling such foods are an important revenue stream and hence there was likely to be resistance
How will we engage stakeholders for a national policy was an issue we had to grapple with.
Assessment methods for analysis of impacts
- We assumed that the draft regulations would follow dietary guidelines
- Regulations would retract access to unhealthy food and enhance access to healthier foods
- Would reduce the risk of poor nutrition
- Revenue analysis was quite a sophisticated analysis, looked at other schools with similar policies showed that they got more revenue from federal grants and that the net affect on income was negligible/small
- Did look at minority ethnic communities and judged that they would benefit as well
Recommendations
- Follow sodium, fat, restrictions
- Have calories restrictions
- Provide school with tools and guides on models for implementing these regulations
Hawaii County Agriculture Development Plan
- Lot of food imports even though a significant amount of land in Hawaii is agricultural
- Aim to analyse she health and economic implications
- Limited institutional buying
- Small amount of food agriculture for local markets
- 1 in 4 of adults and 1 in 3 in receipt of food welfare benefits
- High ovweight/obesity
- High unemployment
- Colonial issues
Key findings
- Increase institutional buying
- Increase selling in local markets, eg use of the food befit smart card to buy local foods, etc.
- Increase community growing
Outcomes
- Greater investment in food processing infrastructure
- More coordinated thinking across all the islands
- Development of farm to school projects
- None of the commissioned by decisionmakers, funded by NGOs
- Have inputted into the decision making process, waiting to see what happens as presidential elections in November
- In one were invited to give testimony and some of the commendations were incorporated, Oregon HIA
- Have built bridges
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