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Pigs and poplars - A smart combination for environmental protection, animal welfare and meat quality

Why keep pigs together with poplars?

Free-range systems aim to support animal welfare and are common in organic pork production. However, they do represent an environmental risk due to the depositing of manure. Maximum stocking rates are prescribed assuming that nutrients released with manure will be spread uniformly in the field and may be absorbed by cover crops roots. In practice, there are several problems with these assumptions: pigs often decide to use one specific part of the paddock to defecate; sandy-soil fixes a small amount of nutrients; and herbaceous cover crops are more active during spring summer and less so in other seasons (Tagliapietra et al. 2007).

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"La Cabreta" (Spain): an outdoor goat and sheep production linked to forest and grasslands

“La Cabreta” is a Galician farm owned by a couple, Ermitas and Joan, who met in 2003 during an Erasmus fellowship, and had a common dream to start their own project: to live in the countryside and own their own farm.

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29-11-2014

Agroforestry Field Day in France

Organized within the framework of the following agro-ecological agroforestry project: “L'agroforesterie au service du projet agro-écologique sur les territoires”.

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Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

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

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Knepp Re-Wilding Project

Agroforestry with willow used as medicinal fodder

Wild asparagus in traditional olive orchard at CRA OLI Spoleto, Italy

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