Children and young adult literature

The conference aims to: •Illuminate socio-cultural, political and economic influences upon infant and child feeding practices. •Explore the nature of relationships within families in connection with various types of nutritive and nurturing behaviour in infancy and childhood. •Increase understandings of breastfeeding as a bio-psychosocial activity. •Enhance understanding of the complex interactions between socio-cultural, psychological and biological factors in infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition. •Focus on key initiatives that may impact upon practices related to infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition.