Project brings positive change
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THE Pacific Island Food Revolution has made a huge impact in its three-year pilot program which ended in October this year.
On average, 42 per cent of people who engaged with the project have reported a positive change in their diets, according to an assessment report this year by the Busara Center for Behavioural Economics.
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The findings also showed that Pacific Island Food Revolution has changed the perception of local food from being perceived as “village food” towards being perceived as trendy.
This, in turn, has led to a likelihood of diet improvement of 33 per cent in Fiji, 38 per cent in Vanuatu, 146 per cent in Samoa, and 262 per cent in Tonga.
“Restoring healthy Pacific food and culture will remedy the health crisis that has destroyed many lives in the Pacific for years,” said founder, executive director, renowned international chef and award-winning author and recently appointed board chairman Robert Oliver
“We want to flatten the curve of non-communicable diseases in the region over time, and we are confident that our new board appointees will help Pacific Island Food Revolution deliver on that vision.”
He was referring to the appointment of inaugural Associate Dean Pacific and Associate Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland — Dr Colin Tukuitonga, former senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Fiji – Jenny Seeto, and director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury — Dr Steven Ratuva to the Pacific Island Food Revolution board.