Who Benefits from Undermining Breastfeeding?
Benjamin Wood, Diarmid O’Sullivan, Phillip Baker, Tuan Nguyen, Valerie Ulep and David McCoy (2022). Who Benefits from Undermining Breastfeeding?. UNU-IIGH.
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Subtitle Exploring the global commercial milk formula industry’s generation and distribution of wealth and income Sub-type Research report Author Benjamin Wood
Diarmid O’Sullivan
Phillip Baker
Tuan Nguyen
Valerie Ulep
David McCoyTitle Who Benefits from Undermining Breastfeeding? Publication Date 2022 Place of Publication Kuala Lumpur Publisher UNU-IIGH Pages v, 31 Language eng Abstract The global commercial milk formula (CMF) industry is known to systematically undermine breastfeeding around the world, thereby reinforcing a preventable public health and human rights crisis. This report seeks to provide an alternative picture of the global CMF industry’s contribution to economic development and prosperity for national economies by critically examining the industry’s generation and distribution of wealth and income. The analysis shows that (i) the global CMF industry predominately benefits a small group of shareholders and investors, and (ii) its highly inequitable manner of generating and distributing wealth and income likely contributes to widening social and economic inequalities. Copyright Holder The Authors Copyright Year 2022 Copyright type Creative commons -
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