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Effects of Concurrent Conservation Initiatives on Forest-Adjacent Communities in the Chitwan Valley, Nepal (ICPSR 236987)

Released/updated on: 2025-07-30

Time period: 2014-03-01--2017-12-31

Forest-adjacent communities in Nepal depend on livestock fodder and firewood for their livelihoods. This study examines how overlapping conservation efforts—namely, Community Forestry (CF) and silvicultural practices promoted under Scientific Forest Management (SFM)—have shaped household access to these resources. Using spatial mapping, forest committee surveys, and household data from over 1,200 respondents in 2014 and 1,400 in 2017, including a longitudinal analysis of over 600 matched households, we assess changes in travel distance to collect fodder and firewood across time and social groups. Our models reveal a shift in key predictors: under CF alone, household factors such as caste and land size were most associated with travel distance. Following the spread of SFM-inspired practices, forest management activities became stronger predictors. While these interventions appeared to improve fodder access, firewood collection distance increased significantly among marginalized groups, including Dalit, Terai Janajati, and female-headed households. This divergence highlights how concurrent conservation initiatives can produce unequal livelihood outcomes. Our findings underscore the need for integrated forest governance that addresses these social equity trade-offs, and they point toward a critical need for future research using mixed-methods and quasi-experimental designs to untangle the causal pathways of these complex policy interactions.

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Chitwan Valley Family Study: Changing Social Contexts and Family Formation, Nepal, 1995-2019 (ICPSR 4538)

Released/updated on: 2024-10-16

Geographic coverage: Nepal

Time period: 1995-01-01--2019-01-01

The Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is a comprehensive family panel study of individuals, households, and communities in the Chitwan Valley of Nepal. The study was initially designed to investigate the influence of changing community and household contexts on population outcomes such as marital and childbearing processes. Over time, the goals of the study expanded to investigate family dynamics, intergenerational influences, child health, migration, labor force participation, attitudes and beliefs, mental health, agricultural production, environmental change, and many other topics. The data include full life histories for more than 10,000 individuals, tracking and interviews with all migrants, continuous measurement of community change, over 25 years of demographic event registry, and many other data collections. For additional information regarding the Chitwan Valley Family Study, please visit the Chitwan Valley Family Study Website. A Data Guide for this study is available as a web page and for download.

Principal Investigators

William G. Axinn, University of Michigan
Dirgha Ghimire, University of Michigan
Jordan Smoller, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Chitwan Valley Family Study: Labour Outmigration, Agricultural Productivity and Food Security, Nepal, 2015-2017 (ICPSR 36755)

Released/updated on: 2022-05-02

Geographic coverage: Asia, Nepal

Time period: 2015-07-15--2015-12-20, 2016-03-02--2017-02-21, 2016-01-07--2017-11-01, 2016-01-12--2017-12-01, 2016-01-06--2017-05-07, 2016-03-11--2016-04-03, 2017-02-28--2017-04-04, 2016-06-13--2016-08-19, 2017-06-28--2017-08-10, 2016-02-03--2016-03-10, 2017-01-05--2017-03-26, 2015-10-26--2015-12-03, 2016-10-20--2016-11-27, 2016-03-26--2016-04-10, 2017-03-06--2017-04-10, 2015-03-01--2017-01-01, 2015-08-23--2017-06-21, 2015-08-23--2015-12-02, 2016-01-01--2016-05-08, 2016-05-16--2016-09-22, 2016-09-25--2017-01-29, 2017-03-02--2017-06-21, 2017-02-22--2017-06-21, 2015-07-15--2015-12-20, 2015-07-15--2015-12-20

The Chitwan Valley [Nepal] Family Study: Labor Outmigration, Agricultural Productivity and Food Security is a three year project with the aim to investigate the consequences of labor outmigration on agricultural productivity in a poor agricultural country persistently facing food security problems. A Data Guide for this study is available as a web page and for download.

This project's data collection is made up of twenty-five datasets:

Datasets 1-6: The Household Agriculture and Migration Survey includes information on household agricultural practices and remittances received by the household. Face-to-face interviews were conducted to collect data from household members who previously participated in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (ICPSR 4538).

Topics of the survey include crop production and farm technology use, wealth, assets, income, consumption, food security and information about each household member currently away from home. The survey also collected information on gender, ethnicity, and age.

Datasets 7-16: Measured yields of major crops grown by farm households that previously participated in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (ICPSR 4538).

Dataset 17: A monthly demographic event registry administered to all households that previously participated in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (ICPSR 4538).

Datasets 18-23: The Women's Time Use Survey was designed and administered to married, Nepalese women to collect information on changes in their time and involvement in agriculture and other activities. Face-to-face interviews and telephone interviews were conducted to collect data from women who previously participated in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (ICPSR 4538).

The collection covered a range of topics including farm work, hygiene, finances, health, and religion. Further, respondents were queried concerning socialization and assisting children and the elderly.

Datasets 24-25: The Women's Time Use Survey was designed and administered to married, Nepalese women to collect information on changes in their time and involvement in agriculture and other activities. Face-to-face interviews and telephone interviews were conducted to collect data from women who previously participated in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (ICPSR 4538).

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Nepal Medical Abortion (ICPSR 100633)

Released/updated on: 2017-08-21

Time period: 2013-09-01--2014-02-28

In Nepal, Ipas is working to expand medical abortion services as a promising strategy for providing safe abortion in low resource settings. Components of the successful provision of medical abortion (MA) include correct identification of gestational age, screening for eligibility, and assessment of successful MA. To provide a strategy for safely expanding MA availability to the lowest level of services, Ipas has developed a toolkit with tools for assessing medical abortion eligibility, as well as tools for assessing medical abortion success two weeks after the initial dose of mifepristone. This toolkit has been designed for use by female community health volunteers (FCHVs) and women themselves. The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the reliability of this toolkit in correctly assessing MA eligibility and success, when compared with comprehensive abortion care (CAC) providers offering standard care. Depending on the findings of this study, crucial evidence may be gained for safely introducing access to medical abortion at the community level and beyond the healthcare system either through FCHVs and/or independently by women.