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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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Intercropping medicinal plants under cherry timber trees - Understory planting to improve productivity of plantations

Why combine Melissa officinalis L. with cherry trees?

Melissa officinalis L. (commonly known as lemon balm in English) is used to supply rosmarinic acid to the pharmaceutical sector. Melissa officinalis L., like many medicinal plants, is well adapted to partial shading. Cherry trees are a high value timber tree with good economic return. They generate little shade compared with other trees.

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Località il Piano, Italy

The orchards are grazed by geese and Comisana dairy sheep, while Alpine goats and Jersey cows are kept out to prevent damage to the fruit trees. All animals rotate through pastures and the forest, grazing on native grasses, forest trees and acorns.

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Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

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Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Iberian pig feeding on holm oak acorns

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