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Nutrient Cost Analysis Programme

FOOD ACCESSIBILITY: Nutrient Cost Analysis of Food Prices UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, JAMAICA Background To determine food security vulnerability, the FaN project first determined the lowest possible cost to obtain a balanced diet in the three project countries, Jamaica (JAM), St. Kitts & Nevis (SKN) and St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG). To assess vulnerability, the […]

Marketable Meals

FaN began collaborating in 2020 with the Jamaican Home Economics Association to provide options local, healthy and nutritious snacks, beverages and main meals for potential uptake by the food industry. It was decided that this process would take the form of training and competition. See below for access to the training manual and final recipe […]

School Nutrition Standards

One of the key areas of weakness identified from the Port of Spain Evaluation project was schools. The FaN project, in collaboration with University of Technology, Jamaica, aimed to establish School Nutrition Policy in each of the study countries (Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis and St. Vincent & the Grenadines). During the development of the […]

Curriculum Revisions & Digital Supports for HFLE

Curriculum Revisions FaN collaborated with several partners in revising secondary and primary school level curricula to reach a wide and young target audience to promote the importance of diet and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The goal was to enhance content on the NCDs and their drivers – unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. Secondary level Caribbean Examinations […]

Women’s Farmers Academy

In 2020, FaN began its collaboration with Helen’s Daughters (HD), a St. Lucian non-profit organisation with a special focus on rural women’s economic development through improved market access, adaptive agricultural techniques, and capacity-building. Their shared goal was to remove barriers for women to access agricultural training and empower women farmers to think and function as […]

15 Small Grants

Background: The SGP was implemented in Jamaica (JAM), St. Kitts & Nevis (SKN) and St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG), particularly in communities that were poor and vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. The latest available Country Poverty Assessments in JAM, SKN, and SVG indicated relatively high levels of headcount poverty: 28.5% (JAM), 23.7% (St. […]

Creating Faith-based Spaces for Healthy Food Patterns

Creating faith-based spaces for healthy food patterns, in 2021, the FaN project and the Jamaica Council of Churches entered into an agreement to develop a relationship to undertake activities in research, capacity building, training, and public health advocacy. Their shared goal was to foster an environment that normalizes and supports nutrition and food security among […]

Country Team Updates and Revitalization Webinar Series #3 – Projects & Interventions in St. Kitts and Nevis Pt. 1

This is the third webinar in our series of Country Team Updates and Revitalization Webinar and it focuses on updates from our team in St. Kitts and Nevis. During this discussion on Projects & Interventions in St. Kitts and Nevis, you’ll hear from several presenters who will clarify what work has been done and the […]

Country Team Updates and Revitalization Webinar Series #3 – Projects & Interventions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Pt. 1

This is the third webinar in our series of Country Team Updates and Revitalization Webinar and it focuses on updates from our team in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. During this discussion on Projects & Interventions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, you’ll hear from several presenters who will clarify what work has been done […]

Grocery Grab Supermarket Tour SVG

Grocery Grab Supermarket Tour SVG. How do you read food labels? What does it mean to shop for healthy food? F4CC Grocery Grab SVG winner Tricia Samuel took a tour of CK Greaves Supermarket with Nutritionist Nicole France to find out the answers to these questions