The Role of Diet in Early Child Development: Evidence From Nepal

Good nutrition is critical for early childhood development, which has multiple facets including social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development. While stunting in early childhood has been used in the past as a proxy for the measurement of early childhood development, field-friendly tools now exist to directly measure the different facets of early childhood development in low and middle income countries.

Join this webinar, hosted by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition, to learn more about the relationship between household and child factors, including diet quality, consumption of animal source foods, and anthropometry, to the early development of young Nepali children. Experiences administering an early childhood development tool in the context of surveys in rural Nepal will also be shared.