Organic crops in olive orchards - Getting more income from your orchard, and enhancing biodiversity and soil fertility

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!

Pick Your Factsheet!

Modelling livestock carrying capacity in montados

Why use trees on grazed areas?

First impressions are often that the presence of trees in pasture systems will lead to a reduction in pasture production due to the light and water competition. However, other effects on the system dynamics and water availability may be beneficial to nutrient cycling, yield, and pasture productivity.

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Featured Farm of the day

Silvopastoral Agroforestry System on the farm Eichhof, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The Riecken family is converting their dairy farm Eichhof in northern Germany to a silvopastoral agroforestry farm. Felix and his sister Sina Riecken, young farmers of just 26 and 28 years, see agroforestry as an appropriate way to solve burning problems of the world, such as the acute danger of climate change.

Why an associated crop?

Olives and olive oil are central in the healthy Mediterranean diet, and there is an increase demand for olive products coming from sustainable and organic farming.

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Factsheet

Alley cropping, Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry, canola and alfalfa

Agforward General Assembly in 2017

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Olive tree silvarable-pastoral system, near Viterbo, Italy

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

Willow coppice, Netherlands

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Grazed orchard

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Organic crops in olive orchards - Getting more income from your orchard, and enhancing biodiversity and soil fertility