Rupantar

Transforming Smallholder Food Systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains

We explore diversification options and objectives, focusing on inclusive processes.

What We Do

Our Goal

To understand the processes and practices for transforming food systems through diversification, to improve farm livelihoods while reducing inequity, production risk, and unsustainable resource use.

Where we work

IMPACT STORIES

These are tales of the changes experienced by households and communities as a consequence of working with the Rupantar project

Latest News

Rupantar Annual Review and Planning Meeting 2025

The three-day ARPM meeting for the Rupantar project was organized in May at Biratnagar, Nepal. ARPM focused on reviewing progress, aligning strategies for the final implementation year, and deepening thematic engagement across gender, scaling, policy, and MEL. Discussions reflected that we are in the stage of building on activity-level implementation to generate system-level synthesis and legacy planning lessons.

Field Visits in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, April 2025

Project lead Tamara Jakson has visited field in all the three project areas. The purpose of the trip was to visit all project sites to monitor project activities and meet with partner organisations, and to attend the PAICE training workshops being delivered by CSIRO and funded by the Crawford Fund. During the visit Tamara has met teams on all the three project locations.