EURAF Policy Briefing 11: EU agroforestry policy for a North American audience

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

More soon!

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Trees and crops: making the most of the space - Managing the tree understorey for increased food production and biodiversity

Why manage the understorey?

In many agroforestry systems, the area between the trees and under the tree canopy is an overlooked and underutilised space. Unmanaged, this can create problems with weed control. This space can be put to productive use through planting crops that are adapted to shady conditions. In addition, when managed correctly, the tree understorey can be a resource for biodiversity, providing a habitat for beneficial insects and a food resource for crop pollinators.

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Featured Farm of the day

Dehesa of Casablanca, Oliva de Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain

The former Sylva-Saltus-Ager land use system of the Romans, by which the forest, the pasture and the crop field were established in separate areas, have been integrated today into the so-called Dehesa land use system of southwestern Spain.

07 Aug 2021

EURAF contributed to the 2021 North American Agroforestry Conference with a Briefing titled "EU Agroforestry Policy 11". This gives a short overview of the status of policy discussions in the European Union. Read on for more details HERE and leave comments HERE.

Alley-cropping at Vattholma, Sweden

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Agroforestry with willow used as medicinal fodder

Mixed livestock browsing in holm oak montado

Collection of reindeer

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Alley cropping, Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry, canola and alfalfa

Montado + cattle

EURAF Policy Briefing 11: EU agroforestry policy for a North American audience