A Four-Pillar Approach to Food System Resilience
in Climate-Exposed Communities
NOMI captures the interconnected dimensions of food system resilience through four complementary analytical lenses.
Encompasses the ecological, agricultural, and environmental determinants of nutritional adequacy, including soil salinity impacts, crop loss, aquatic food system dynamics, and seasonal dietary variation.
Captures community-level adaptive capacities, coping strategies, livelihood diversification, social networks, and embodied knowledge through which households navigate food system shocks.
Addresses structural inequities in food access across gender, age, caste, and economic position, including differential vulnerability of widowed women, elderly populations, and marginalised livelihood groups.
Encompasses traditional ecological knowledge, intergenerational transmission of food practices, indigenous food preservation techniques, and the interface between formal institutional knowledge and community-held expertise.
Seven systematic steps to apply the NOMI framework at any climate-exposed field site.
Identify a climate-exposed food system and define the geographic, ecological, and socioeconomic boundaries of the study site.
Field SetupConduct semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observation using the four-pillar interview protocol to capture multi-dimensional data.
Field WorkSystematically code qualitative data across the NSS, OR, MLE, and IK pillars using the standardized NOMI codebook.
AnalysisIdentify and document thematic relationships that bridge pillars, revealing the interconnected nature of food system dynamics.
AnalysisApply Louvain/Leiden consensus community detection to reveal emergent thematic clusters and cross-pillar governance domains.
ComputationCross-validate emergent themes against peer-reviewed literature using the Convergence-Qualification-Triangulation protocol.
ValidationTranslate findings into actionable policy recommendations using the AMRP pathway and One Health governance lens.
PolicyThe NOMI framework was developed and validated through intensive field research in the Indian Sundarbans, one of the world's most climate-exposed deltaic food systems. Comparative analysis positions NOMI against 3 established frameworks: UNICEF Conceptual Framework, Social-Ecological Systems (SES), and EAT-Lancet.
A standalone CLI tool that operationalizes the NOMI framework for new field sites.
nomi-apply bridges the gap between the NOMI conceptual framework and practical field research. Import codebooks, run community detection, validate with literature, and generate policy-ready outputs.
NOMI: A Four-Pillar Framework for Food System Resilience Analysis in Climate-Exposed Communities. Dialogues in Health, 2026.
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