Problematizing Human Milk The case of Bogotas Food and Nutrition - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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)

The other side of the Milk Depot Geoffroy, Jean-Jules (1901) La Goutte de Lait de Belleville. La distribution de lait/La consultation/La pesée

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