News / 26 March 2019
Stakeholders relevant to small farmers and small foods’ business gather recently in Bucharest for a participatory foresight workshop aimed at helping them distil for small farmers’ contribution to Food and Nutritional Security by the 2030 and 2050 time horizons. Twenty food system actors – small farmers, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy makers,…
Blogs / 17 June 2018
The main problems that cause small farmers in Bistrița-Năsăud to produce less are the very low prices offered by intermediaries for the raw products, the lack of the necessary work force for daily activities and the low level of subsidies. This information was received directly from the field on the…
News / 20 May 2018
During the week of May 14th to 16th, Highclere Consulting organized a meeting with the coordinators of the WP6 ‘Enabling Conditions for Smallholder Farmers’ part of the SALSA project. The meeting, held in Rome and hosted by our partner Coldiretti, gathered 17 partners working both in European and African regions….
News / 28 January 2018
At the beginning of 2018, from 22nd to 26th of January, 45 project’s partners meet in Valencia, Spain, to discuss about the first 20 months of their SALSA work, in 10 pioneer regions from Europe and Africa. The discussion revolved around fieldwork, stakeholders’ engagement, data collection, communication. Also a special…
News / 10 December 2017
The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security: Global Challenges, Local Solutions and Connected Pathways took place between 3-6 December 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The convenors of the conference were Elsevier in association with the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security along with the Universities of Pretoria…