Interdisciplinary Research for Climate-Exposed Communities
Where Food, Nutrition
& Health Converge
We study how food safety governance, indigenous knowledge, and market systems shape nutrition outcomes in India's most vulnerable regions - and what it takes to build resilience from the ground up.
Three Core Research Streams
Each project addresses a critical dimension of India's food system challenges under the Samposhyam research program.
Food Systems Resilience Framework
A four-pillar analytic framework for understanding food system resilience in climate-exposed communities. Developed from fieldwork in the Indian Sundarbans.
Food Safety Governance
Analysis of food safety regulation and FSSAI enforcement across India. Maps governance dimensions from national policy to local implementation.
Heavy Metal Surveillance
Contaminant governance and heavy metal exposure monitoring in food supply chains. Integrates environmental science with public health policy.
Food Systems Resilience Framework
A four-pillar analytic framework for understanding food system resilience in climate-exposed communities. Developed from fieldwork in the Indian Sundarbans.
Food Safety Governance
Analysis of food safety regulation and FSSAI enforcement across India. Maps governance dimensions from national policy to local implementation.
Heavy Metal Surveillance
Contaminant governance and heavy metal exposure monitoring in food supply chains. Integrates environmental science with public health policy.
The NOMI Framework
A four-pillar analytic lens for understanding food system resilience through nutrition, resilience, equity, and indigenous knowledge.
NSS
Nutritional & Salinity Stress
Salinity intrusion, climate exposure, nutritional security, water access, and dietary diversity in coastal communities.
OR
Observational Resilience
Supply chain infrastructure, cold chain logistics, market access, and adaptive capacity under climate stress.
MLE
Multi-Lens Equity
Economic dimensions, market dynamics, livelihood diversification, and gender/caste/class equity in food access.
IK
Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional ecological knowledge, local adaptation practices, and community-based food safety strategies.
Built from fieldwork in the Indian Sundarbans
7-Step Application Workflow
Apply NOMI as an analytic template in any climate-exposed food system context.
Select Study Context
Identify climate-exposed food system (delta, coastal, island, dryland)
NOMI-Guided Data Collection
Design interview guide using 4-pillar lens across NSS, OR, MLE, IK domains
Apply Four-Pillar Coding Framework
Code transcripts using NOMI pillars as deductive frame; allow inductive emergence
Map Cross-Pillar Relationships
Identify directional relationships between codes using 6 relationship types
Computational Community Detection
Run Louvain/Leiden on code network to discover thematic communities
CQT Literature Validation
Systematic literature triangulation for evidence convergence scoring
One Health Policy Translation
Map findings to human, animal, and environment domains for actionable recommendations
NOMI Framework Toolkit
A standalone CLI tool that operationalizes the NOMI framework for researchers. Install, initialize, analyze, export.
- Import codebooks from ATLAS.ti, NVivo, MAXQDA, Dedoose
- Customizable N-pillar framework (4 NOMI defaults + your own)
- Louvain + Leiden consensus community detection
- CQT literature search via PubMed + Consensus API
- AMRP diagnostic comparison against Sundarbans benchmark
- Publication-ready figures and interactive HTML reports
- Interactive web dashboard hosted on HuggingFace Spaces
Successfully installed nomi-apply-0.1.0
$ nomi-apply init "mekong-study"
Project created: mekong-study/
$ nomi-apply import-codebook codes.qdpx
Imported 245 codes
$ nomi-apply detect-communities
Detected 14 communities (Q=0.712)
$ nomi-apply amrp-diagnose
AMRP Score: 0.78 vs Sundarbans
$ nomi-apply dashboard
Dashboard live at hf.space/nomi-dashboard
Current Projects
Three interconnected research streams exploring food system resilience, safety governance, and environmental health across India.
NOMI: A Four-Pillar Framework for Food System Resilience in Climate-Exposed Communities
Qualitative framework developed from Sundarbans fieldwork. 317 codes, 19 themes, 473 cross-pillar relationships, CQT literature validation.
Food Safety Governance Dimensions in India
Multi-level analysis of FSSAI enforcement, regulatory capacity, and food control infrastructure from national policy to local implementation.
Heavy Metal Contaminant Surveillance in Food Supply Chains
Environmental monitoring of contaminant exposure pathways in food systems, integrating environmental science with public health governance.
Samposhyam Foundation
Based in Kolkata, the Samposhyam Foundation conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of food safety, nutrition, environmental health, and social equity.
Our work spans computational qualitative methods, field research in vulnerable communities, and open-source tool development for the global research community.
Samposhyam (Sanskrit: complete nourishment) reflects our mission to understand food systems holistically.
Interdisciplinary by Design
Bridging qualitative field research with computational methods, traditional knowledge with modern science, and local communities with global policy.
Contact & Collaborate
Interested in applying the NOMI framework, collaborating on food systems research, or accessing our tools?