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Environmental conditions in early life are known to have impacts on later health outcomes, but causal mechanisms and potential remedies have been difficult to discern. This paper uses the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys of 2006 and 2011, combined with earlier NASA satellite observations of variation in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) at each child’s location and time of birth to identify the trimesters of gestation and periods of infancy when climate variation is linked to attained height later in life.

Recent studies have found evidence of an increasing polarization between healthy and unhealthy diets, with many high income countries having diets that are becoming more healthy, while in lower income countries diets are becoming more unhealthy. However, little is known about how the changing availability of different kinds of foods at a national level may be related to both undernutrition and NCDs.

Objectives: Describe the prevalence of anemia in Nepali non-pregnant women of reproductive age by agroecological zone and potential risk factors.

2014 Nutrition Innovation Lab's Scientific Symposium in Kathmandu, Nepal, Poster presentation from Claire Fitch entitled, "Is diversity in agriculture production linked to dietary diversity in among Nepalese Women? Findings from the PoSHAN Community Studies"

2014 Nutrition Innovation Lab's Scientific Symposium in Kathmandu, Nepal, Poster presentation from Erin Bihel entitled, "Does amount and kind of food brought by a Household vary by indices of wealth in Nepal"

The 2014 Annual Scientific Symposium in Katmandu Nepal, Jamie Dorsey's poster presentation entitled, "Linking Antenatal and Postnatal Care, maternal health knowledge, and behavior among women in the PoSHAN Community Studies".

In Nepal, despite improvements in poverty reduction and health services, malnutrition persists. 41% of children under age five are stunted, 29% of children are underweight, and 18% of women of reproductive age are malnourished.

Nepal's burden of malnutrition and the dominance of agricultural livelihoods highlight the importance of understanding the pathways from agricultural production to nutritional outcomes and employing interventions that incorporate food production and consumption. A need for improved understanding of such pathways and the impacts of nutrition-sensitive interventions has encouraged related research initiatives in Nepal.

Despite the internationally accepted recommendation that eating a diversity of foods leads to a healthy diet, and is associated with positive health outcomes such as reduced mortality, little information exists on what factors influence dietary diversity among women of reproductive age in Agago district. The objective of this study is to determine dietary diversity among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Agago district.

Infant and young child feeding has been known to compromise the health of children among which complementary feeding plays a major part. Even communities that have performed adequately in breast feeding have had their efforts undermined by complementary feeding hence causing malnutrition among their children. This study was conducted with the aim of finding out factors that are associated with complementary feeding among the children in Pader district.