EURAF Policy Briefing 5. Agroforestry and Ecoschemes

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

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Silvopoultry: establishing a sward under the trees

Why do chickens need a sward under trees?

Trees in the outdoor run are beneficial to the welfare of chickens. The ancestors of domestic chickens roost in trees, and hens are happier and use more of the range when it is enriched with trees. However, one problem with including trees in the range is the lack of ground vegetation under the trees, due to reduced light levels and increased competition. Further, where the tree canopy opens unpalatable weeds, rather than grasses, may grow.

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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.

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22 Sep 2020

EURAF proposes five Agroforestry and Landscape Feature Eco-Schemes: a) Planning for Agroforestry and Landscape Features b) Tree-Landscape-Feature Establishment; c) Tree-Landscape-Feature Enrichment; d) Agroforestry Establishment; e) Regeneration of Mature Agroforestry. Read on for full details and leave your comments here.

Grape harvesting in between Sorbus domestica

Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Silvopastoral system in Poland

Darliner Farm

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Grazed orchard

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

EURAF Policy Briefing 5. Agroforestry and Ecoschemes