NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2025
PEOPLE'S FOOD AND FARMING ALLIANCE MALTA & PEOPLE'S HEALTH ALLIANCE MALTA
Our Second Newsletter for 2025, key updates and important information
Strategy Feedback
On 13th March 2025, we met with representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Animal Rights convened to discuss the Food Resilience Strategy.
The Ministry informed attendees that the strategy is set to be finalized by June 2025. While certain amendments will be incorporated, to define roles and responsibilities among ministries and agencies, the main strategic pillars are foreseen to remain unchanged. The strategy will be treated as a dynamic document, allowing for ongoing updates and modifications.
As foreseen under the strategy, an Authority for Food Safety and Security is currently being established, with relevant legislations underway and expected to become operational once ratified, in July 2025. The safeguarding of food supplieswas highlighted as a key priority by the Ministry.
Our Feedback and Recommendations
We referred to our feedback submitted to the Ministry in November 2024, and requested to receive a list of actors who contributed to the strategy.
We highlighted the correlation between health and nutrition and stressed the importance of raising awareness on healthy choices to mitigate the high incidence of non-communicable diseases in Malta, ultimately aiming to increase life expectancy. Doctors within the PHA community are increasingly advising on healthy food choices as part of people’s lifestyles. The Ministry counterparts were particularly interested to receive more guidance on this nexus.
Additionally, we advised the Ministry to consider the inclusion of private sector actors – such as farmers’ representatives, restaurant owners, and agribusiness stakeholders – as part of consultations, or during the formulation of the Strategic Action Plan and throughout its implementation.
We demanded to be consulted during the preparation of the Action Plan, ensuring the incorporation of international best practices (including but not limited to Ireland, Serbia, Singapore). We emphasized the need for participatory monitoring of results on a regular basis.
Get to know me
Hypnotherapy with Deborah Marshall-Warren
Life’ a journey. Life’s a ride. A ride, that goes ‘up’ and ‘down’, and ‘up’. A life that does a ‘sudden’, 360 degree curve-ball! As I write, I am ‘literally’ on the ‘rides’, at a celebrated ‘theme park’. Often have I thought, ‘Hip Hip Hooray for Hypnotherapy!’. I’m Deborah, and I’ve been in practice, here in Malta, 20 years. I work, together with three doctors, and other specialists, at the GP Group in Haz Zabbar. I’m recently back from Indonesia, where I was a volunteer teacher of Health education.
For now, let’s go back to the ‘fair’, for it has demonstrated how Hypnosis and Therapy is a day-to-day life-ride changer, when you choose change.
I’ve witnessed as I joined a ride, all the reasons people come to me to make their life journey more manageable.
FEAR. Fullstop.
Fear of: flying; heights; of very enclosed spaces; and spaces packed full of other people, oh, and packed in, in the dark! Let’s add, fear of the dark. Fear too, of creatures like spiders, cockroaches, and snakes. Water for sure.
Anxiety and panic attacks. Lack of: confidence; courage; strength; self belief that ‘I can’; and self worth. Eating too much. Eating too much of the junk, and sometimes, over-eating and drinking too much of the good stuff too. Greed. Hence, over-sized people could not fit in the seats of some rides safely. Running, and walking comfortably is more difficult, and you are taking years off a potentially, long and healthy life. Oh, and there’s a no smoking policy too! And of course, ‘retail’ over-spending! So many cute and cuddly, characters and toys! All the ‘fun of the fair!’
Food for thought. Believe me. The words, phrases, and self-sentencing you ‘feed yourself’ with, (inside your head), every moment of ‘the journey’, are as important as the nutrition you eat and drink. You can miss out on so much, when you continue to carry, ‘your perception’ which is so often, ‘inherited’.
Hypnotherapy helps you design your own labels, as opposed to ‘hand-me-down ‘labels’ you may have worn through life. Get on board with Hypnotherapy, and ‘enjoy the ride much, much, more’.
Watch my TEDx talk titled, The Wizard of US, and more, about the participative way, with Hypnosis and Therapy on You Tube.
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