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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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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

Herdade do Freixo do Meio (Portugal)

After being confiscated in 1974 during the Carnation Revolution, HFM was returned to the former owners in 1990 and since then tried to bring a new way of managing this heritage guided by the ethics of respect for the people and for the environment.

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In United Kingdom there is an Atlantic Climate and agroforestry systems design are based on species choice:

- Tree/crop/livestock combinations based on livestock (ruminants and monogastrics), cereals, fruit and horticulture, timber and wood fuel.

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley

Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry-based alley cropping

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Bisons in a forest reserve, Poland

Authochtonous goat breed (Serpentina) grazing under Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Red Tractor Farm

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

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