Eat Right Coastal Food Systems

This program situates nutrition and safety within a dynamic coastal economy. Beginning in Kochi with seminars on food safety governance, fisheries policy, and behavioral-change campaigns, participants build mapping frameworks before entering field environments.

Field inquiry includes structured observation at landing sites (permissions-based), cold chain mapping, market analysis, and stakeholder interviews with fishers, traders, regulators, and hospitality actors.

Culinary anthropology modules explore migration-linked diets, coastal identity, tourism impacts, and sustainability pressures. Sustainability workshops examine waste, spoilage, and circular interventions.

Students conclude with structured policy studios and peer-review labs to produce coastal food-system governance briefs and ethnographic portfolios.

Participants will:

Map fisheries-to-market value chains including governance interfaces.
Analyze food safety and regulatory enforcement in coastal contexts.
Conduct structured market ethnography and cold chain analysis.
Evaluate sustainability and waste-management challenges in fisheries systems.
Produce academically defensible coastal food-system proposals and cultural portfolios.

Nutrition

Anthropology

Environmental Studies

Food Systems

Economics

Sustainability

Policy

Geography

Development Studies

Maritime Studies

Kochi

Kerala Coastal Corridor

Day	Location	Academic Focus & Activities	Learning Emphasis
1	Kochi	Arrival & seminar: Food safety as governance	Systems framing
2	Kochi	Methods lab: Fisheries-to-market mapping	Value-chain analysis
3	Kochi	Guest lecture: Food safety standards & behavior change	Regulatory lens
4	Coastal Corridor	Landing-site observation (permissions-based)	Production systems
5	Coastal Corridor	Cold chain & logistics mapping workshop	Infrastructure analysis
6	Coastal Corridor	Stakeholder interviews & governance roundtable	Institutional interfaces
7	Kochi	Sustainability & waste audit lab	Circular systems
8	Kochi	Culinary anthropology seminar: migration & coastal identity	Cultural analysis
9	Kochi	Market ethnography field lab	Pricing & consumer patterns
10	Kochi	Policy clinic: Sustainable diets & feasibility	Governance strategy
11	Kochi	Output lab: Coastal food-system memo drafting	Academic deliverable
12	Kochi	Ethnographic portfolio completion & peer critique	Faculty-gradeable output
13	Kochi	Departure	Closure