Organic dairy farmer Tim Downes, hosting an AFINET meeting
UK. Photo by Jo Smith, ORC
Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)
near Portalegre, Portugal by João Palma
Walnut and Maize
Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm
North Western Switzerland. Photo by Felix Herzog
Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley
Bedfordshire in 2002, UK, by Paul Burgess.
Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall
Northern Ireland
1st Spanish RAIN meeting
AFINET at Feira Nacional de Agricultura
Santarém, Portugal
Iberian pig feeding on holm oak acorns
Portugal. by João Palma
AFINET partners planting trees
Asse, Belgium
KC Weblinks
EIP-Agri
Other projects
Sustainable intensification of agriculture through agroforestry. Central aim of our project is to evaluate whether and under which site conditions agroforestry in Germany can be a land use alternative that is ecologically, economically and socially more sustainable than conventional agriculture.
The objective of the Agrof-MM project is to train European agricultural stakeholders in agroforestry practices. The project will give them the opportunity to familiarise themselves with agroforestry, and to improve their knowledge of it, in order to work towards the development of agroforestry in the Mediterranean and mountain regions of Europe. The Agrof-MM project both reinforces and completes the European AgroFE project, which ended in December 2015. It thus widens the geographical scope and improves the level of training of the AgroFE project, as well as addressing new stakeholders.
AGFORWARD was a four-year project, developed by 23 organisations at the forefront of agroforestry research, practice and promotion in Europe, with the goal of promoting appropriate agroforestry practices that advance sustainable rural development. The project objectives were: i) increase our understanding of existing, and new extensive and intensive agroforestry systems in Europe; ii) identify, develop and demonstrate innovations to improve the ecosystem service benefits and viability of agroforestry systems in Europe using participatory research, iii) develop better adapted designs and practices for the different soil and climatic conditions of Europe, and iv) promote the wide adoption of sustainable agroforestry systems.
Silvoarable agroforestry comprises widely-spaced trees intercropped with arable crops. This project builds on recent findings that indicate that modern silvoarable production systems are very efficient in terms of resource use, and could introduce an innovative agricultural production system that will be both environment-friendly and economically profitable. Growing high quality trees in association with arable crops in European fields may improve the sustainability of farming systems, diversify farmers incomes, provide new products to the wood industry, and create novel landscapes of high value. In support of the European Common Agricultural Policy, the SAFE project aimed at providing models and databases for assessing the profitability of silvoarable systems, and to suggest unified European policy guidelines for implementing agroforestry.
EU Policies
Associations
ASSOCIATION FRANÇAISE
d'AGROFORESTERIE
AWAF: Association pour l'agroforesterie en Wallonie et à Bruxelles
AIAF
Associazione Italiana AgroForestazione
AGFE - Asociación Agroforestal Española
Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Focus groups
Agroforestry: introducing woody vegetation into specialised crop and livestock systems. How to develop agroforestry as a sustainable farming system which can boost agricultural productivity and profitability. The final report of this Focus Group on agroforestry has now been published, click here.
Operational groups
Transferencia de un método para el control de la erosión en el olivar
-Agroforestry in general
Olive tree, wild asparagus, rustic chicken: sustainable innovations in the production process, in processing and marketing
Website including agroforestry information (news, publications, practical information, agroforestry farmers, etc) on agroforestry in Flanders
A section on agroforestry resources as part of a UK knowledge hub. Includes links to blogs and videos as well as relevant publications from a range of organizations.
-Education and Communication
Advisory organisation that provides a wide range of services to rural entrepreneurs: organizes education, makes rural and environmental inventories and plans, and provides business and education services.
-Silvopastures
Hungarian site of silvopastoral systems.
Grazing. Management of biotopes.
Grazing in the shoreline.
Link to 5 factsheets (forest pasture, wood pasture with sparse trees, shoreline pastures, herb-rich pastures and dry pastures).
Niittyjen hoitajan opas. Kokemuksia ja esimerkkejä perinnemaisemien hoidosta Kolin kansallispuistossa. Management of meadows in Finland.
A short video about the wood pastures in Bogyiszló, Hungary.