EU Policies

Policy Briefings

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

More soon!

Pick Your Factsheet!

Agroforestry with standard fruit trees in Switzerland - Improving production and enhancing biodiversity

Why plant fruit trees?

There are various reasons why farmers in Switzerland have increasingly combined fruit trees with crops in recent years. One important motivation is to reduce soilverosion, and other benefits include thevreduction of nitrate leaching, and increased carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

DE • EN • FL • FR • HU • IT • PL • PT • SP • GR

Featured Farm of the day

Mixed Crop-Dairy Cattle Farm in South-Western France

In 2000, they decided that ploughing had to stop and that their agricultural system could be modelled as closely as possible to the forest, with constant inputs of organic matter to enhance bacterial life in the soil.

This website will soon end. Please update your bookmarks with the new website address

https://euraf.net/

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Whitehall Farm, Cambs, UK, apples and arable

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Grape harvesting in between Sorbus domestica

Montado + cattle

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls