World Breastfeeding Week 2016: A Key to Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development is essentially about ecology, economy, and equity.

The World Breastfeeding Week 2016 aims to firmly anchor breastfeeding as a key component of sustainable development.

World Breastfeeding Week is coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) and global network of individuals and organizations concerned with the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding worldwide.

Breastfeeding is one element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share.

Access and download WABA’s World Breastfeeding Week 2016 free materials in English, Spanish, and many other languages to be prepared to talk breastfeeding and sustainable development:

1. Poverty and breastfeeding
2. Food security and nutrition and breastfeeding
3. Good health and wellbeing and breastfeeding
4. Quality education and breastfeeding
5. Gender equality and breastfeeding
6. Clean water and sanitation and breastfeeding
7. Affordable and clean energy and breastfeeding
8. Work and economic growth and breastfeeding
9. Industry, innovation, and infrastructure and breastfeeding
10. Reduced inequalities and breastfeeding
11. Sustainable cities and communities and breastfeeding
12. Responsible consumption and production and breastfeeding
13. Climate action and breastfeeding
14. Life below water and breastfeeding
15. Life on land and breastfeeding
16. Peace and justice strong Institutions and breastfeeding
17. Partnerships for goals and breastfeeding

Read about how exclusive breastfeeding is associated with longer telomeres in Latino preschoolers, thus reduced risk for chronic disease here.

Protect, promote, and support breastfeeding by watching the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s video created for the 2016 First Food Forum.

Register on our site to connect with others interested in sustainable solutions to health and wellbeing.