Tackling food waste in rural territories requires more than good intentions. It requires the right combination of local engagement, technical expertise and coordinated action.
RULESSWASTE brings together two complementary partners with a shared objective: to reduce food waste in rural Asturias through a structured, territorial and action-oriented approach.
CAPSA: Territorial anchoring and social impact
CAPSA plays a central role in the project as a key territorial actor in Asturias. With deep roots in the region and a long-standing commitment to sustainability and social impact, CAPSA contributes essential local knowledge and institutional connection.
Within RULESSWASTE, CAPSA leads the territorial engagement process. This includes:
- Facilitating contact with municipalities and local administrations.
- Engaging producers, businesses and community organisations.
- Ensuring that the project aligns with local realities and priorities.
This territorial anchoring is critical. Effective food waste reduction strategies must be built on trust, collaboration and an understanding of local dynamics.
NARIA: Coordination and innovation-driven expertise
NARIA, founded in 2019, specializes in digitizing the Third Sector to optimize resource management and combat food waste with technological solutions.
In the RULESSWASTE project, NARIA acts as the coordinator, providing the technical and organizational backbone. Its expertise in digital solutions and systemic approaches ensures technical coherence, a structured methodology, and alignment between research and action, which is key to designing scalable and replicable approaches adapted to rural contexts.:
- Technical coherence across work packages.
- Structured methodology for diagnosis and intervention.
- Alignment between research, action and evaluation phases.
By combining innovation with structured coordination, NARIA supports the development of scalable and replicable approaches tailored to rural contexts.
A complementary partnership
The strength of RULESSWASTE lies in the complementarity between territorial engagement and technical expertise.
Local legitimacy and institutional connection are combined with methodological rigour and innovation capacity. This partnership model ensures that future interventions are not only technically sound but also socially accepted and operationally feasible.
Funded by the European Union under the SMP Food programme, RULESSWASTE reflects a broader European commitment to building more sustainable and resilient food systems — starting from local communities.
Over the coming months, this collaboration will focus on listening, analysing and preparing the groundwork for meaningful action in rural Asturias.
Because reducing food waste requires both proximity and structure.
