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Problematizing Human Milk

The case of Bogota´s Food and Nutrition Security Policy

Breastfeeding in Bogota’s Food and Nutrition Security Policy 2007-2015

• The global

WHO + FAO Food security

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”

• The local

Compulsory health insurance programs: i) counselling of pregnant women during

antenatal control, ii) preparatory course on mater/paternity, and iii) postpartum care and growth-and- development control for under-one year olds.

Collective interventions: IAMI-IAFI, AIEPI/IMCI and breastfeeding-support-networks

Is breast milk a food-product?

Eugenics and Hygiene in Early Human- Milk Policy, Bogota (1910-1930)

• Milk Depots were places created to combat infant
• mortality. Centred on the child, here mothers were

not seen as birth givers but rather depicted in relation to three moral images of potential degeneration.

• New identity in Bogota: citizens enter modernity

with capitalist imaginaries

Front pages of the works by Troconis (1912) and Pardo (1920)

Geoffroy, Jean-Jules (1901) La Goutte de Lait de Belleville. La distribution de lait/La consultation/La pesée

The other side of the Milk Depot

Deficient Mother-Images

• Baby-killers

[Infanticide]

• illness-vectors

[Vicious milk]

• Deficient nurture-

providers [Breast milk inadequacy]

Inside Modernity

Asheville Postcard CO (c.1922) ‘A Cuban Wet Nurse’

Global Distance in Local Policy