In 2018, NHMRC funding allowed a unique partnership between an Aboriginal-owned food retail industry organisation and an international research team from RE-FRESH to demonstrate how simple changes to in-store merchandising could profoundly reduce sugar consumption for community health benefit.
Several years on, the inteverventions of the ‘Healthy Stores 2020′ pilot study remain part of the nutrition policy for The Arnhem Land Progress Association’s (ALPA) 27 grocery stores across remote areas of the Northern Territory and Northern Queensland.
Beyond the store group, the project’s successful outcomes and approach have had far-reaching impact: attracting multi-million-dollar funding for further research; informing policy change and advocacy in Australia and overseas, and; enhancing practitioners’ ability to transform the healthiness of retail food environments.
MORE RESOURCES:
- View the Healthy Stores 2020 Infographic
- View the Healthy Stores 2020 ‘Policy Action Series’: Introduction
- View the Healthy Stores 2020 ‘Policy Action Series’: Part 1 – Healthy foood and drink promotion
- View the Healthy Stores 2020 ‘Policy Action Series’: Part 2 – Unhealthy food and drink promotion
- View the Healthy Stores 2020 ‘Policy Action Series’: Part 3 – Food and beverage price and price promotions
