Ecological and Dietary Data from 10 Farming Villages in Nepal

2021-2022 data from 721 participants across 200 smallholder households in Jumla District, Nepal. The dataset integrates fortnightly dietary recalls, monthly anthropometry, and socio-economic surveys with ecological data on plant-pollinator interactions and flowering phenology. It was collected to understand diets, nutritional status, farming practices, and crop pollination in a rural Himalayan context.

Use Cases

• Analyze fortnightly 24-hour dietary recall data to model nutrient intake patterns across participant groups (adult males, adult females, adolescent girls, children under five).
• Correlate monthly anthropometry survey results with household socioeconomic status and farming practices data to identify drivers of nutritional status.
• Model plant-pollinator interaction data alongside flowering phenology to assess ecosystem service provision for crops.
• Use pollinator exclusion field experiment results from 15 replicate sites to quantify pollination dependency along an altitudinal gradient.
• Investigate relationships between beekeeping practices data and household socio-economic indicators.

Strengths

• Integrated transdisciplinary data covering 721 individuals and 200 households over a twelve-month period.
• Contains both human-centric (diet, anthropometry, socio-economics) and ecological (pollinator interactions, phenology) components from the same ten villages.
• Includes experimental data from a pollinator exclusion field experiment across 15 replicate sites.

Limitations

• Geographic scope is limited to ten villages in one district (Jumla) in Nepal, limiting generalizability.
• Sample size of 200 households and 721 individuals may be insufficient for highly granular subgroup analyses.
• Data collection methods like fortnightly recalls are subject to self-reporting biases and memory errors.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Field surveys including fortnightly 24-hour dietary recalls, monthly anthropometry, socio-economic questionnaires, and ecological monitoring of plant-pollinator interactions and flowering phenology.

Time Range

2021-2022

Freshness

Data covers 2021-2022, with metadata last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Ten smallholder farming villages in Patarasi Rural Municipality, Jumla District, Nepal