Blogs / 29 September 2022
In Romania, we throw away each day about 6,000 tonnes of food. Every year, we throw away about 100,000 truckloads of food, food that: • It has a negative impact on our budget. As a nation, 26% of our total consumer spending is on food, about 12 percent above the European…
Blogs / 21 September 2022
FoodSHIFT2030: About sustainable food systems, small producers, healthy food and engaged communities
During the week of 5 – 11 September, dedicated to the Forum of Green Cities (FOV) in Brasov, Highclere Consulting S.R.L. contributed to the FOV objective by highlighting the theme of “sustainable food” at the city level, through a workshop organised within the framework of the European FoodSHIFT2030 Project. The workshop…
Blogs / 1 March 2022
15 March 2022 Update We admire and support (as much as we can) the efforts that NGOs, volunteers, local administrations, churches and Romanian people put into helping the Ukrainian crossing the borders in different parts of the country. We hope and we encourage you to keep your enthusiasms for helping…
Blogs / 21 April 2021
Launched in January 2021, FARMWELL has a very ambitious and innovative goal: to identify the main social challenges farmers and their communities are facing, and potential solutions or innovations to solve them that will help improve farmers’ lives. FARMWELL is part of a thematic network and is one of the first projects…
Blogs / 29 April 2020
Reducing nutrient and pesticide pollution from agriculture in the Danube River Basin (DRB) has been an important objective of the ICPDR for many years in support of implementation of the Danube River Protection Convention and EU Water Framework Directive. The ICPDR’s recent commitment to broaden this objective and reach out…
Blogs / 10 January 2019
Here at Highclere Consulting we consider ourselves to be seasoned and experienced ‘rural networkers’. In addition to our day-to-day intuitive grassroots networking, we’ve worked a lot with formal policy networks. These are the networks which are created or constructed by public authorities to engage people, businesses and special interest groups…