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Thanks to the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and the participants

S S pilt Milk: An Intersectoral partnership that failed to advance milk security for Low-Income Lone Mothers in NS. Dr. Lynn McIntyre, University of Calgary, Dr. Theresa Glanville, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Andrea Hilchie-Pye.

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  1. SSpilt Milk: An Intersectoral partnership that failed to advance milk security for Low-Income Lone Mothers in NS

  2. Dr. Lynn McIntyre, University of Calgary, Dr. Theresa Glanville, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Andrea Hilchie-Pye Thanks to the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and the participants

  3. The Study • Exploring Milky Ways was a study that investigated the impact of, and barriers to, stabilizing monthly milk intake among low-income lone mothers and their children in Nova Scotia.

  4. One quote summarizes it all…. “ Milk is, in our house… it is a necessity but it’s also a luxury.”

  5. Addressing Milk insecurity Lack of access to adequate, affordable milk through acceptable means

  6. Key Policy Goal • Realize public health nutrition gains for low-income families by increasing their access to fluid milk in the context of Canada’s milk marketing system.

  7. Principles we Identified Mothers • Don’t take money off cheque • Don’t stigmatize Milk Industry • Promote consumption • Don’t displace consumption of full price milk with cheaper milk

  8. Stakeholders PRE-WORK • Extensive stakeholder briefings on our findings to explore the appropriate policy options.

  9. Intersectoral Policy Dialogue: Purpose • Clarification and full discussion of policy options • Identification of priorities • Action plans • Partners for future work

  10. Attendees • NS Depts of Agriculture, Health Promotion & Protection, Community Services; Regional Public Health Services; School Board; PHAC; NSHRF; dairy sector incl Dairy Farmers of Canada, Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia, two major dairies, major grocery distributor council; NGOs incl Osteoporosis Canada and Feed Nova Scotia; family resource centre reps; mothers; academics

  11. Over Quota Program • Over quota milk program –partnership with milk producers/others • Families targeted for additional milk at lower cost; program to increase fluid milk consumption, not displace

  12. Preferred implementation strategy • Nova Scotia Milk Card • Electronic swipe card to record milk purchases that could be used at any grocery/retail outlet • Volumes tracked: lower priced milk after regular volume purchased

  13. Policy Dialogue Follow-Up • Agreement on feasibility study • Teleconference for terms of reference, new members, sub-groups, workplan. • Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Program as funding source • Conflict: low-priced vs over quota milk; match funding for ACAAF demonstration

  14. Dairy Sector withdraws/project ends • “After reviewing the …Terms of Reference, it is now clear that the dairy industry is expected to financially subsidize the low-cost milk being described in the demonstration project and beyond. Several times we have made it known that the dairy industry is not prepared to provide this subsidy, when this issue is so clearly one of lacking government social assistance.”

  15. Discussion • Private sector (dairy farmers, processors, retailers) sells milk at a set cost; unwilling to subsidize; denies excess capacity • Public sector Depts of Agriculture, Health Prom & Prot, and Community Services lacked commitment (Whose program? Too small? Did not partner.) • Women and their advocates including researchers could not mediate even a pilot program. Orphan problem.

  16. Conclusions • While imperfect, the initiative’s failure was not a result of our engagement process but more a result of our inability to negotiate the cultural differences between partners, to drive policy from the periphery, and to strike the right chord among an array of policy possibilities for the key actors.

  17. SO IN THE END ALL WE HAD WAS SPILT MILK THANK YOU

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