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This Dialogue explored how and why breastfeeding – as the desirable norm for feeding human infants and children – is where healthy and sustainable food systems really begin and the challenges that must be addressed for this to be the universal social norm.
International experts in human rights and breastfeeding, corporate political activity, food systems and food marketing and the political economy of breastfeeding provided informed commentary on the need to protect and support women and their children and their right to breastfeeding and to ensure that the work of breastfeeding is acknowledged and resourced as the foundational food system.
International experts in human rights and breastfeeding, corporate political activity, food systems and food marketing and the political economy of breastfeeding provided informed commentary on the need to protect and support women and their children and their right to breastfeeding and to ensure that the work of breastfeeding is acknowledged and resourced as the foundational food system.
Speakers:
Julie Smith, Chair of Dialogue, Honorary Associate Professor, Research School of Population Health, ANU, and Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
Penny Van Esterik, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto and Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph
Phillip Baker, Co-chair of the event and Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University
Arun Gupta, Central Coordinator, Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI)
Vandana Prasad, Technical Advisor – Public Health Resource Society (PHRS), New Delhi
Event: 9 September 2021
