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

Exposure Visit for Women Farmers on Scientific Goat Rearing in Cooch Behar

On 18 June 2026, an exposure visit was organized for 30 women farmers engaged in scientific goat rearing under the non-plot diversification pathway to Uttaran Mahila Prani Sampada Producer Company Ltd., a successful women-led livestock producer company in Cooch Behar. The visit was jointly organized by Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV), Animal Resources Development Department, Government of West Bengal, and Bhumi Shakti Farmers Producer Company Ltd.

Rupantar Conducted 3rd Student’s Research Seminar Through Virtual Platform

Rupantar organized its 3rd Students’ Research Seminar through a virtual Zoom meeting, bringing together students, professors, researchers, and colleagues from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. The event served as an important platform for emerging researchers to present their academic work, exchange ideas, and receive valuable feedback from experts in the field.