Our goal is to understand the complexity of the ecological, biological, social and political factors that affect the food insecurity of breastfeeding mothers and their newborns in different regions of Peru, and that alter the mechanisms of adaptive iron homeostasis in infants during the Anthropocene *
*The Anthropocene is defined as the geological era where human beings have influenced the planetary system (Crutzen, 2002; Steffen et al., 2011)