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The Food Chain

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Examining what it takes to put food on your plate

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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The Food Chain: Breast Practice

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28/11/2015 GMT

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The economics of breastfeeding and working mothers.

As part of the BBC's 100 Women season, The Food Chain dedicates an episode to working mothers and how they feed their babies. More women are entering the global workforce, and many of them become mothers at a crucial point in their careers. But with the availability of parental leave as variable as there are countries in the world, many women must return to work while their child is still nursing. Meanwhile, the WHO says that a woman should exclusively breastfeed her child up to six months of age. So, how do you juggle the demands of feeding a baby with a working life?  We'll hear about a project in Bangladesh that helps garment factory workers continue to breastfeed their babies, and we visit Indonesia where a taxi service exists to ferry breast milk from working mothers to waiting infants at home. And from Hong Kong to Ivory Coast, Manuela Saragosa reunites our panel of BBC correspondents - who are also working mothers - to discuss the challenges of reporting on their patch and pumping milk. 

Image: Baby breastfeeding, Credit: Thinkstock


Featuring: 

Dr. Larry Grummer-Strawn, World Health Organization
Phyllis Rippey, Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa
Micaela Collins, University of Toronto 
Janet Golden, Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey
Karishma Vaswani, BBC Asia Business Correspondent
Juliana Liu, BBC Hong Kong Correspondent
Tamasin Ford, BBC Ivory Coast Correspondent

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