Food Systems · One Health · Equity

Where food, nutrition
& health converge

Samposhyam Foundation studies how food safety governance, indigenous knowledge, and market systems shape nutrition in India's most climate-exposed communities, and what it takes to build resilience from the ground up.

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Our name

Samposhyam, Sanskrit for complete nourishment. We study food systems whole: the soil and the salinity, the market and the meal, the science and the knowledge held in a grandmother's kitchen.

Research portfolio

Three streams,
one food system.

Each stream addresses a critical dimension of India's food system challenges, from local resilience to national governance.

P1 · NOMI

Food Systems Resilience Framework

A four-pillar analytic lens for food system resilience, built from fieldwork in the Indian Sundarbans.

Qualitative Sundarbans Fieldwork Four Pillars
P2 · FSG

Food Safety Governance

Multi-level analysis of FSSAI enforcement and food control capacity, from national policy to local implementation.

Governance Policy FSSAI
P3 · HME

Heavy Metal Surveillance

Contaminant governance and exposure monitoring across food supply chains, bridging environmental science and public health.

Environmental Contaminants Surveillance
Flagship framework

The NOMI Framework

A four-pillar analytic lens for understanding food system resilience through nutrition, resilience, equity, and knowledge, applicable to any climate-exposed context.

NSS

Nutrition as a Socioecological System

Ecological and agricultural determinants of nutrition: soil salinity, crop loss, and seasonal dietary shifts.

OR

Observational Resilience

Community coping strategies, livelihood diversification, and social networks that absorb food system shocks.

MLE

Multi-Lens Equity

Structural inequities in food access across gender, age, caste, and economic position.

IK

Inclusive Knowledge

Traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous food practices meeting institutional science.

Community impact

Rooted in fieldwork across the Indian Sundarbans and Bengal

7
Communities reached
across West Bengal
11
Field events
2024 to 2026
105
Health screenings
body composition and vitals
300+
Participants
community members engaged
In the community

Research that
leaves the lab.

Nutrition workshops, recipe documentation, and screening camps, working directly with the communities our research is about.

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World Food Day 2024 participants and organisers in Sankrail, Howrah
16 October 2024 · Sankrail, Howrah

World Food Day 2024: our inaugural programme

Samposhyam's first community programme, on the theme "Right to Food for a Better Life and Future." A day of cooking, art, and nutrition screening with the community.

Women cooking with local ingredients at the nutritious cooking competition

Nutritious Cooking Competition

Community women competed with traditional Bengali recipes built for balanced nutrition from local ingredients.

Children drawing balanced-diet artwork

Children's Art & Nutrition Camp

Children illustrated food groups while a camp offered BMI checks and personalised dietary advice.

Bengali Recipe Documentation

A living record of traditional recipes with full nutritional analysis, preserving culinary heritage while informing our nutrition research.

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About the foundation

Interdisciplinary
by design.

Based in Kolkata, Samposhyam Foundation works at the intersection of food safety, nutrition, environmental health, and social equity, bridging computational qualitative methods with field research in vulnerable communities.

We build the tools, the evidence, and the community relationships needed for resilient nutrition futures.

One Health Food Safety Equity Inclusive Knowledge

Bridging communities and science

Qualitative field research meets computational methods; traditional knowledge meets modern science; local communities meet global policy.

Contact & collaborate

Let's build resilient
food futures, together.

Interested in applying the NOMI framework, collaborating on food systems research, or supporting our community programmes? We'd love to hear from you.

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