Where are the RAINS
Finland RAIN - Coordinator: EFI
Boreal Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Traditional key biotopes.
- Woodland grazing and wood pastures with cows and sheep, chicken or bee keeping in orchards and different intercropping practices.
Spain RAIN - Coordinator: USC
Atlantic Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Better tree design to promote adequate crop development and deliver biomass for renewable energy production.
- Best combination of trees and livestock to increase the profitability of forestland, while reducing fire risk and preserve autochthonous
UK RAIN - Coordinator: ORC
Atlantic Climate
System design based on species choice:
- Tree/crop/livestock combinations based on livestock (ruminants and monogastrics), cereals, fruit and horticulture, timber and wood fuel.
France RAIN - Coordinator: AFAF
Atlantic Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Optimising system design (tree arrangement...) at landscape/watershed level (water and climate regulation, soil conservation...).
- Testing specific tree associations (fast and slow growing species).
- Adapting varieties to AF context (shadetolerance...).
Belgium RAIN - Coordinator: EV ILVO
Atlantic Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Fruit production.
- Wood production.
- Landscape integration.
- Animal welfare.
- Minimal erosion (for example swales).
Poland RAIN - Coordinator: IUNG-PIB
Continental Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Promotion of antierosion shelterbelts establishment in openfield landscape and on steep slopes.
- Presence of trees for the micro-climate regulation.
- The impact of trees and bushes on breeding parameters of grassland grazing animals.
- Development of best practices on structural and spatial features design for new plantings.
Hungary RAIN - Coordinator: NyME-KKK
Continental Climate
Agroforestry systems design based on:
- Presence of trees for microclimate regulation.
- Shelterbelts, windbreaks for enhancing agricultural production and protection of land/line infrastructure.
Tree/crop/livestock combinations based on:
- Cropped arable and horticultural land.
- Temporary and permanent grasslands.
- Land used for fodder/energy production.
Italy RAIN - Coordinator: IBAF-CNR
Mediterranean Climate
Systems design based on the main crops:
- Viticulture, oliveculture, wheat, tobacco, fodder crops, olive cultivation.
Portugal RAIN - Coordinator: ISA
Mediterranean Climate
- Tree/crop/animal species choice and tree density definition for alley cropping systems
- Crop/animal species choice for a sustainable regeneration of ‘montado’ AF systems.
- Tree design for preventing/limiting soil erosion and increasing soil fertility.