EURAF Policy Briefing 4. Agroforestry and Enhanced Conditionality

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Apple orchards grazed in France - Increasing the profit from your orchard

Why graze orchards with sheep?

Sheep can reduce the cost of grass mowing in orchards
Sheep can promote nutrient retention and cycling within the orchard
Sheep can eat fallen leaves (a refuge for apple scab spores) and fruits (a refuge for pests such as sawfly andcodling moth) which should result in reduced need for pesticide applications
Sheep could reduce vole populations (which can damage trees)
Grass can be used to maintain ewes or fatten lambs, which can increase farm income

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Agroforestry on municipally owned sites - example Donzdorf (Germany)

Between 2007 and 2010 the city established five agroforestry plots with trees for valuable timber production on city-owned land, sized 0,15 to 0,75 ha. The city decided for valuable timber trees, among other reasons because it couldn’t guarantee the maintenance of traditional orchard trees on the selected plots in the long-term.

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21 Sep 2020

What is "enhanced conditionality" in the new CAP? How does it differ from the "cross-compliance" we all love? What are the ten Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (or maybe Commandments)? Why are Parliament, Agriculture Ministers and the Commission fighting tooth and nail about something as innocent sounding as "GAEC-9". Read on to find out and leave your comments here.

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Walnut and Maize

Grazed orchard

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Iberian pig feeding on holm oak acorns

Authochtonous goat breed (Serpentina) grazing under Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

Strip-like willow plantations offer a variety of retreats for birds and game

Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Switzerland

EURAF Policy Briefing 4. Agroforestry and Enhanced Conditionality