Progressing the Right to Food in Edinburgh

How can we make the right to food real in Scotland – and in Edinburgh?

This is an interactive workshop focuses on rights, dignity and cash-first approaches. The aim is to bring together practitioners working across food, advice, community organisations, local authorities and health services to explore how we can make the right to food a reality in Scotland and in our communities.

The workshop will include;

9.30am – 12.30pm (including a small break)

• Building a shared understanding of the right to food in Scotland
• Increasing awareness of rights-based and dignified approaches, including cash-first
• Identifying practical actions and opportunities to advance the right to food movement

12.30pm – 13.30pm

Lunch and Netwok

Why now?

Given the Scottish Government’s intention to reintroduce a Human Rights Bill, which would incorporate the right to food into Scots law, and the direction set by the Cash-First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks plan, this feels like an important moment to bring people together locally.