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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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Pick Your Factsheet!

Yield and climate change adaptation using alley cropping

How can trees maintain crop yields?

Climate change scenarios predict fewer but more intense rain events. Dry spring and summer weather reduces crop yields. Water loss from the crop is controlled by solar radiation, air temperature, wind speed and humidity.

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Featured Farm of the day

"The Heather-Farm": From an Old Tradition to Sustainable Modern Agriculture in France

The Heather-Farm is an estate in Limousin in Central France. According to old documents and pictures, after the clearing of large forest areas in the Middle Ages, there were not many trees in the hilly landscape of that region until the 18th century.

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The Heather-Farm

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

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

Willow coppice, Netherlands

Alley-cropping at Vattholma, Sweden

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

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

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls