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30-08-2022

This summer has been a hot one: heat, forest fires, droughts all over Europe. Climate change is here – how can we mitigate the consequences? More and more farmers see a solution in agroforestry: rows of trees in fields, in whose shade crops and animals thrive better, the soil is protected from drying out and erosion, carbon is sequestered and biodiversity is created.

 

02-08-2022

As part of the implementation of the Life VAIA international project "Valuing afforestation of damaged woods with innovative agroforestry", Vasyl Yukhnovskyi, professor of the Department of Forests Restoration and Melioration of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, held a series of seminars on the exchange of experience in the use of agroforestry in Ukraine.

02-08-2022

The World Agroforestry Congress raised many opportunities to interact with researchers and farmers from around the world.

01-08-2022

The Organic Field Days 2022 in Germany, a meeting point for organic agriculture, took place this year from June 28 to 30 at the Gladbacherhof in Hessen.

01-08-2022

EURAF Produced four Policy Briefings between May and July.

31-07-2022

This document has been read at the closing of the 6th European Agroforestry Conference, Nuoro 16th-20th May 2022This document has been read at the closing of the 6th European Agroforestry Conference, Nuoro 16th-20th May 2022.

31-07-2022

Beluga whales, kombucha, astonishing farming diversity and brilliant scientific insights? Yes, it must be the World Congress on Agroforestry!

31-07-2022

We are happy to welcome the Finnish Agroforestry Network who joined EURAF as a new member in June.

30-07-2022

“Our future rests in our capacity to adapt” was the motto of the IVth Iberian Congress of the Dehesa and Montado, held last June 15-16 in Badajoz, Spain.

30-07-2022

Most environmental NGOs strongly support the draft Nature Restoration Regulation - as does EURAF - but we have concerns over some of the indicators listed, and use of the term "non productive trees" when applied to Landscape Features.

29-07-2022
The Irish Agroforestry  forum was formed in 2021 and its primary aim was to promote agroforestry as a sustainable land-use option across the Island of Ireland.
 
29-07-2022

A meeting of the working group "Agroforestry as a path to post-war recovery and adaptation to climate change in Ukraine" was held on June 9, 2022

07-06-2022

The commitment to carbon neutrality in the integrated “Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use” (AFOLU) pillar by 2035 is under threat.  EURAF takes a stand.

 

02-06-2022

The Sixth European Agroforestry Conference took place in Nuoro Sardinia from 16-20th May 2020. This note provides easy access to the abstracts. Many of them are relevant to the European Green Deal, and to a range of agricultural, forestry and environmental policies in the EU and globally.

01-06-2022

The EU Commission recently closed a consultation on forest monitoring. EURAF suggests in this Briefing that information about Trees Outside Forests is even more unreliable than for forests

27-05-2022

A new board was elected at the EURAF General Assembly, which took place in the margins of the European Agroforestry Conference in Nuoro, Italy, on May 19 2022.

19-05-2022

Election of the new EURAF Board will occur on the the 19th of May during the EURAF General Assembly taking place from 17h to 18h in Nuoro (Italy). Nomination forms are now available!

06-04-2022

EURAF  will finally hold a proper General Assembly on Thursday 19th May. The most important decision we will take then is to elect our new board and like any board, this one needs new blood!

05-04-2022

Starting this year, the German Association for Agroforestry (DeFAF) is now offering an extensive training program on agroforestry for farmers and agricultural advisors.

04-04-2022

The world needs these positive results more than ever. It is striking that the two most transformative agricultural innovations of the modern age, agroforestry and holistic grazing management, are now spreading around the world from their roots in Africa.