Restoration of abandoned wood pasture - Renewing the past for the future

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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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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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Why restore abandoned wood pastures?

Wood pastures with high nature and cultural value (HNCV) have been present in Hungary for thousands of years. Currently, there are 33,318 hectares of HNCV wood pasture in Hungary: 28% is in protected areas and 60% in EU Natura 2000.

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Willow coppice, Netherlands

Bisons in a forest reserve, Poland

Alley-cropping at Vattholma, Sweden

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Willow silvopasture

Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

Knepp Re-Wilding Project

Restoration of abandoned wood pasture - Renewing the past for the future