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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!

Agroforestry and decentralised food and energy production - The role of coppicing and pollarding

The tree problem

From the emergence of Homo sapiens until the last 200-300 years, trees have been the major source of energy (and other materials and food). Even 20,000 years ago, the ratio of trees to humans was about 1.5 million to one, but it has now fallen drastically to about 400 to one (and is still falling). To save the planet, and humanity, we need food and energy systems that are efficient in terms of supplying both of those outputs while improving the quality and sustainability of the biosphere. This could best be done by reversing this declining ratio of trees to humans.

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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.

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3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Wild asparagus in traditional olive orchard at CRA OLI Spoleto, Italy

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Bisons in a forest reserve, Poland

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Switzerland

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls

Red Tractor Farm

Agroforestry with chicken