Women who share their milk may meet with social disapproval, but this ancient practice for feeding vulnerable babies and meeting breastfeeding challenges signals an adaptable decentralised nutrition...
By Julie Smith
Investing in breastfeeding: Sustainable solutions for global health
In a recent paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), we argued that women’s unpaid work needs better recognition through decent time use statistics as well as by...
How women’s decisions about breastfeeding are made for them
Much discussion around breastfeeding is about women’s choice to breastfeed or not. But who really decides on how a baby is fed when a $55 billion industry is at stake? A new series of studies...
The Mothers’ Milk Tool: Putting a price on breastmilk
Breastfeeding and mothers’ milk is presently not counted in food systems or the economy and should be, argues Dr Julie Smith. She explains the new 'Mothers’ Milk Tool' quantifies the volume of...
Women are not babysitters for the economy
There has been spirited debate about what the government should be doing, and how quickly it should be doing it, in response to the unprecedented health and economic crisis from COVID 19. At the...