Delta Food Systems & Climate Vulnerability

This program explores how river deltas — shaped by flooding, salinity intrusion, and migration — influence food systems and urban consumption patterns. Students examine agricultural shifts, fishing livelihoods, urban market systems, and food security policy within a climate-affected region.

Through vulnerability mapping workshops, ethnographic fieldwork, and public health seminars, students trace the connections between ecological stress and urban food access.

The program culminates in a Climate–Food Vulnerability Portfolio or Policy Proposal.

Students will:

Map delta-region food systems under environmental stress.
Analyze migration and livelihood adaptation patterns.
Conduct vulnerability mapping using qualitative and spatial tools.
Evaluate public food distribution and nutrition systems.
Produce a climate-resilience food systems portfolio.

Geography

Anthropology

Public Health

Sustainability

Urban Studies

Development Studies

Kolkata

Delta Field Context

Urban Markets

Community Sites

Day	Location	Academic Engagement	Learning Emphasis
1	Kolkata	Arrival; seminar: Delta ecology & food systems	Framing
2	Kolkata	Workshop: Market ethnography & urban food culture	Cultural systems
3	Kolkata	Lecture: Climate vulnerability & migration	Environmental framing
4	Delta Context	Field visit: Agricultural livelihood case study	Production under stress
5	Delta Context	Vulnerability mapping workshop (qualitative + spatial)	Analytical tools
6	Delta Context	Dialogue on salinity, flooding & adaptation	Ecological resilience
7	Kolkata	Rural–urban supply chain tracing exercise	Infrastructure mapping
8	Kolkata	Public food distribution seminar; governance discussion	Policy systems
9	Kolkata	Nutrition & public health evidence lab	Health lens
10	Kolkata	Portfolio/proposal studio I	Synthesis
11	Kolkata	Peer critique & revision	Academic rigor
12	Kolkata	Final integration seminar	Systems thinking
13	Kolkata	Presentations; departures	Closure