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Agroforestry policies in France: assessment of the five-year Agroforestry Development Plan

Report by Claire Lemarié and Juliette Grimaldi

The Agroforestry Development Plan (2015-2020) is reaching is fifth year. Mr Christophe Pinard is policy officer for biodiversity and agroforestry at the French Ministry of Agriculture and agreed to give EURAF his opinion about this plan.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 22:18

Seminars and field trips in a swedish agroforestry association's three days workshop

Report by Elsa Lagerqvist

In October the Swedish agroforestry association, Agroforestry Sverige, arranged a three days workshop for its members and others interested in agroforestry. The workshop included both seminars and field trips, and covered the wide range of agroforestry systems we have in Sweden, from the household forest gardens to forest grazing and alley cropping systems on farm scale.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 21:52

Big success of the 7th Forum Agroforestry Systems: "A look at the big picture! Innovative land use with diverse functions in the cultural landscape"

The interest in the event, which took place for the first time in Bavaria, was overwhelming with 200 participants. Since 2009 the Forum Agroforestry Systems, which takes place every two years, sees itself as a platform for practice, research and consulting in agroforestry and is regarded as the most important event on this topic in German-speaking countries.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 16:15

International consortium plants first trees of forest garden

Between 2017 and 2019, nine European countries and thirteen partners, EURAF among them, within the AFINET project exchanged questions, ideas and experiences around (innovations in) agroforestry.

During their final meeting and to help the sector, the partners put their backs into the planting of a new forest garden of 3 ha in Asse, Belgium. On Tuesday 10 December they planted the first trees of this initiative.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 16:00

Discover "LIVINGAGRO", an international cooperation project for enhancing agroforestry in the Mediterranean

Green light for the start of “LIVINGAGRO” project whose launching event was successfully concluded in Cagliari on last November 26th and 27th 2019.

“LIVINGAGRO – Cross Border Living laboratories for Agroforestry” project is funded under the ENI CBC Med Programme 2014 – 2020 first call for standard projects, and refers to thematic objective A.2 “Support to education, research, technological development and innovation”, priority A.2.1 “Technological transfer and commercialization of research results”.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Tue, 12/17/2019 - 19:27

Seminar about what can we expect from agroforestry held in the Czech Republic

A professional seminar was held on 20 November near the Moravian city of Brno. Its aim was to inform participants about the possibilities to develop agroforestry in the Czech Republic.

The agenda of the seminar consisted mainly of the outcomes of a research project (Agroforestry - A Chance for Regional Development and Sustainability of the Rural Landscape), which is the first project to address the issue of agroforestry in Czechia. Lectures, the leading experts dealing with agroforestry, were presented at the seminar.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 00:03

Two appointments in the Mediterranean to promote agroforestry

This autumn the two major Italian islands, Sicily and Sardinia, have made trees the protagonists of two relevant events.

The XII Congress in Palermo, organized by SISEF - Società Italiana di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale (the Italian Society for Selviculture and Forestry Ecology) – and the week of meetings dedicated to the Inauguration of the Forestry Year, promoted by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.

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Submitted by cristinanascimento on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 23:45