Community Nutrition · West Bengal
Samposhyam works village by village across West Bengal: nutrition workshops, health screenings, school kitchen gardens, and food traditions kept alive with the people they belong to.
In the Community
Designed with the Department of Nutrition, Belda College, and coordinated on the ground by JYDC: door-to-door household surveys, a community health camp, and a participatory cooking competition across Rampur and Joygopalpur.
A cooking competition, children's art camp, and 23 traditional Bengali recipes documented with 19 community women.
50+ elders screened, leading to 20 personalised diet plans and a community-led daily exercise routine.
55 students screened on Human Rights Day, with 100 children drawing their favourite meal plate.
The Research Behind It
A four-pillar lens for food-system resilience, built from fieldwork in the Indian Sundarbans.
Samposhyam, Sanskrit for complete nourishment. Based in Kolkata, 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.
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