infant feeding and climate change

Prof. Prakash Sundar ShresthaPresident

Nepal Breastfeeding Promotion ForumNEPAL

a) Exclusive Breastfeeding -69.6%

b) BF + Plain Water -10.4%

c) BF + Other Milk - 9.4%

d) BF + Complementary Food - 9.5%

e) BF + Non Milk Liquid - 0.4%

f) Not Breastfeeding - 0.7%

NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)

a) Breastfeeding + Complementary food- 70.4%

b) Breastfeeding + Plain Water- 13.0%

c) Exclusive Breastfeeding - 11.5%

d) Breastfeeding + Other Milk- 4.1%

e) Not Breastfeeding - 1.0%

NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)

0 – 1 Month - 5.3%2 – 3 Months - 3.2%4 – 5 Months - 8.7%6 – 8 Months - 5.5%9 – 11 Months - 8.0%12 – 17 Months - 6.6%18 – 23 Months - 5.1%

NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)

NDHS 2011 (Preliminary Report)

Exact National Data on use of % of commercial

complementary feeding – Not available.

But in personal experience it seems to be on

increasing trends as many women are joining the

job.

8000, 000 babies are born every year. 6% giving

Bottle Feeding means about 48, 000 babies are on

Bottle Feeding.

So Annual GHG Emission will be approximately

22,000 tons carbondioxide equivalent.