Irina Toma, M.A.
Researcher
Irina Toma is associate consultant with Highclere Consulting (Brașov), where she is working on Horizon 2020 research projects and public policy analysis. She has an MA in Environmental Management and Policy from Utrecht University and over seven years experience working with several NGOs in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She worked in reporting sustainablity indicators for Global Reporting Initiative. With Fairfood International Irina conducted the research component for several advocacy campaigns for increasing the sustanability of supply chains and the revienues of agricultural workers and small farmers from Philipines, Central America and Madagascar. She returned to contribute to innovation and best practice transfer and for finding adequate strategies for agricultural and regional development. Currently Irina is developing her partnerships and projects through being part of the FRI network and building her consultancy website www.EPMsustainability.eu.
NGO and research reports
Fairfood International – Paradise Lost: The bitter reality behind working in the Philippine Pineapple Industry (2013)
Fair Trade Advocacy Office – Competition Law Exemptions & Sector Sustain. Agreements (Mar 2016)
Alliance Environnement (on behalf of European Commission DG AGRI) – Evaluation of the impact of the CAP on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions – case study report for Romania (Dec 2017)
Highclere Consulting – AGRILINK D2.2- The role of advisory services in farmers’ decision making for innovation uptake. Insights from case studies in ROMANIA
Highclere Consulting – SALSA D6.1 – Report on enabling conditions and existing policy instruments that are to, directly or indirectly, promote the development of small farms and a corresponding tailoring of international cooperation and agricultural research for development
Highclere Consulting – SALSA D6.2 – Strategic framework for guiding decision-makers in the choice of appropriate support instruments (including the related evaluation and learning arrangements)
Academic and media publications
ARC 2020 – Digitization in Romanian Agriculture – Three Appropriate Solutions (03/2019)
Global Food Security – “Small-scale farming and food security – policy perspectives from Eastern Europe” (Pending Review) (09/2019)
Global Food Security – “Supporting the role of small farms in the European regional food systems: What role for the science-policy interface?” (Pending review) (09/2019)
