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Agroforestry Policy Briefings? Why?

1. Agroforestry and the new CAP's Green Architecture

2. Agroforestry in the EU Forest Strategy

3. Agroforestry and CAP Direct Payments

4. Agroforestry and Enhanced Conditionality

5. Agroforestry and Ecoschemes

6. Agroforestry and Pillar II of the new CAP

7. Agroforestry CAP Monitoring

8. Agroforestery for Carbon Farming

9. AF Policy in England

10. EURAF reacts to the Commission's advice on CAP SPs

11. EU Agroforestry Policy for a North American Audience

12. EURAF reacts to the EU "Fit for 55 Package"

13. EURAF welcomes the “EU Soil Strategy for 2030”

14. Agroforestry in the CAP post 01/01/2023

15. Monitoring Trees Outside Forests in the EU

16. Agroforestry for the Green Deal transition

17. ENVI amendments fatally weaken the LULUCF Regulation

18. Agroforestry and the EU Nature Restoration Regulation

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Protecting trees in chestnut stands grazed with Celtic pigs Pigs - Avoiding damage to young and old trees

Why graze pigs in chestnut stands?

Before ink disease destroyed trees growing below 400 m above sea level, chestnut stands had been the most broadly distributed tree in Galicia (NW Spain). Currently, chestnut stands occupy over 60,000 ha in Galicia, mainly located in the eastern mountainous areas of Ancares-Caurel Natural Park, where close to 100 varieties are still growing and providing chestnut fruits. However, the orography with steep slopes renders the harvest of chestnut fruit unprofitable due to the high labour cost.

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Featured Farm of the day

Wakelyns Agroforestry - a diverse organic silvoarable system in the UK

The general layout of the farm (Google Earth UK postcode IP21 5SD) is a series of 2 ha alley-cropping systems, with all production hedges aligned north-south on each side of 12m wide cropping areas. There are two coppice systems (hazel, willow), two mixed hardwood systems (ash, hornbeam, Italian alder, oak, small-leaved lime, sycamore, wild cherry, with or without apple) and two mixed fruit and nut systems. The organic crop rotation (cereals-ley-potatoes/squash-ley-cereals) runs as a single cycle around the whole farm.

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Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Grazed orchard

Willow coppice, Netherlands

Agroforestry with chicken

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Agroforestry with willow used as medicinal fodder

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

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