Two french regional projects started in 2018

In spring 2018, two EIP operational groups (EU funded) have been started in Provence, both dedicated to agroforestry:

'Depasse' project, dealing with silvopasture systems, with ongoing trials involving hence/sheeps in olive/apple orchards to assess their services on crop quality
'SAM' project dealing with alley cropping, for arable crops, but also vegetable growing as the most considered system.

SAM project therefore organizes field trips, design workshops (picture), trainings...

A newsletter is also available (in french).

A map has been built with all ongoing agroforestry projects. Our great trainee Manoa participated to an EIP event in Saint-Jacques de Compostelle in order to introduce these initiatives. More information on these regional projects available here.  

These projects will long for four years, until 2021.

Report by francois [dot] warlop [at] grab [dot] fr (François Warlop)