To understand the relationship between people’s everyday food behaviours and the places and communities they live in, Cities Changing Diabetes has partnered with Gehl to take a place-based approach to assess food environments. Assessments have successfully been conducted in Philadelphia, Houston and Bogota to understand local challenges and develop innovative solutions. You can learn about the research by reading the report from Bogota and watching the CCD Rounds.
Cities Changing Diabetes and Gehl has partnered with a community
group called Locals Approach, working in the Ajuda neighbourhood in
Lisbon to co-create a foodscape assessment toolkit, test it, and
implement a community-based project that makes it easier for people to
access the food they want and need.
Some weeks ago,
Cities Changing Diabetes and Gehl went to Lisbon to be on-site and
assist with collecting observational data about the food environment
in Ajuda, with an App being developed as part of the foodscape
toolkit.
The Ajuda neighbourhood is located in western
Lisbon, and approximately 15,617 people live there. However, Ajuda has
a university, meaning that thousands of people come to Ajuda
daily. Thus thousands of people can be reached and positively
impacted by improving the food environment in this
neighbourhood.
The foodscape toolkit will be available
to other cities at the end of the year. Stay tuned.
