3rd European Agroforestry Conference
23-25 May 2016, Montpellier, France
Celebrating 20 years of Agroforestry research in Europe.
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All the slideshows of the oral presentations are available by cliking on the titles of the presentations in the workshop programme below
All the plenary sessions talks videos are available by clicking on the titles of the presentations in the workshop programme below
Programme | Call for abstracts | REGISTRATION and conference fees | Venue | Call for the EURAF General Assembly | Organisers and sponsors
Some pictures taken during the 3rd European Agroforestry Conference
Welcome Address
EURAF and INRA, the French National Institute of Agronomical Research are very pleased to welcome you in Montpellier for the Third European Agroforestry Conference.
Montpellier is the core center in France for Agroforestry Research and demonstration. Both temperate zone and tropical zone agroforestry are targeted by Montpellier researchers. Montpellier is also the home of RAP, the most comprehensive agroforestry experiment in France, with 20 years of uninterrupted monitoring. You will have the opportunity to visit this outstanding site during the Conference (check the RAP leaflet here).
Burning issues such as resilience to climate change or the assessment of ecosystems services of Agroforestry will be in the main light. Check the program for the wide range of topics that will be discussed, from the last research findings to the practical enforcement of new agroforestry regulations at national and European scales.
New fields of research will also be thoroughly discussed, such as the selection of shade tolerant crops, the use of models to perform virtual agroforestry experiments, the labelling of agroforestry products or the revival of age-old practices such as tree pollarding. And many more.
Farmers are welcome, with a session that will be focused on expertise sharing between European agroforesters.
May in Montpellier is a very pleasant time, and we can only suggest you to extend your stay and visit some of the treasures that the area around Montpellier can offer you. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need assistance.
We expect you!
Christian Dupraz
President of the organizing Committee | Past Founding President of EURAF (2011-2014)
The EURAF Best Poster Awards!
The EURAF Jury best poster prize was awarded to Cathy Bouffartigue for her poster entitled "Adapting successional agroforestry systems to an European Context with collaborative methods"
The Public best poster prize was awarded (by secret ballot) to Esther Guillot for her poster entitled "Spatial soil fertility gradient in a mature agroforestry system under a Mediterranean climate"
The winners got their registration fees reimbursed as well as a 100 € grant
Congratulation to Cathy and Esther for the excellent job!
Programme
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Monday 23 May
9h00-10h00: Registration
10h00-13h00: Opening session
10h00: Welcome addresses
- Laurent Bruckler, INRA, President of the Montpellier Research Center
- Christian Dupraz, President of the Organizing Committee
- Alain Canet, President of AFAF
10h30: Rosa Mosquera and Gerry Lawson - EURAF achievements during the last two years
11h00: Andy Gordon - Current Issues in Canadian Agroforestry (video of the presentation) and Michael Jacobson - Agroforestry in North America - Examples From Across the Region (video of the presentation)
11h30: Emmanuel Petel (video of the presentation) and Gaétan Dubois (video of the presentation) - Agroforestry : Opportunities for European Agriculture – Research-Innovation & Common Agricultural Policy
12h00: Stéphane Le Foll, French Minister of Agriculture - The French National Plan for Agroforestry (in French with English subtitles)
12h30: Mark Shepard - From permaculture to Agroforestry, the ecological systems design approach (video of the presentation)
13h00-14h30: Lunch
14h30-16h30: Side events in parallel rooms
Parallel session 1 "Development of agroforestry: farmer's perceptions, barriers and incentives" (Room: Amphi Lamour)
- Michael den Herder - Current extent of agroforestry in Europe
- Gerardo Moreno - Agroforestry systems of high natural and cultural value in Europe: constraints, challenges and proposal for the future
- Paula Gaspar - Stakeholders’ visions on environmental and economic benefits from dehesa agroforestry systems: a delphi approach
- Firesenai Sereke - Drivers of swiss agroforestry – it’s not all about money
- Boki Luske - Bottlenecks and solutions for introducing agroforestry: a case study for the netherlands
- Francesca Camilli, and Andrea Pisanelli - Benefits and constraints associated to agroforestry systems: the case studies implemented in italy within the agforward project
- John Fike - Implementing agroforestry practices in Virginia, Usa: challenges and paths forward
Parallel session 2 "Environmental benefits of agroforestry" (Room: Amphi 206)
- Alain Canet - Agr’eau: developing a resource-efficient, ecofriendly, climate-smart agriculture across the Adour-Garonne basin (South-West France)
- David Grandgirard - Experts’ perception of potential ecosystemic services from agroforestry and other agroecological alternatives
- Nicolas Marron - Optimization of productivity and sustainability of intensive cropping systems through symbiotic nitrogen fixation in agroforestry plantations
- Sally Westaway - Does harvesting hedges for woodfuel conflict with their delivery of other ecosystem services
- Delphine Mézière - Arable weeds in alley cropping agroforestry – results of a first year survey
- Ambroise Martin-Chave - How agroforestry microclimates could affect the daily-activity of major predatory arthropods in organic vegetable crops?
Parallel session 3 "Innovations in agroforestry" (Room: Amphi 2)
- Paul Burgess - Agforward: achievements during the first two years
- Jimmy Le Bec - Trunk – crown growth trade off in pollarded trees: influence on wood production
- Pierre-Eric Lauri - Fruit-trees in agroforestry systems - review and prospects for the temperate and mediterranean zones
- Kevin Wolz - New alley cropping trial in the midwestern us with multi-layer nut and fruit tree rows
- Dominique DESCLAUX - Agroforestry: new challenge for field crop breeding
- Jean Dauzat - How much commercial timber in your plot, how much carbon sequestrated in the trees, how much light available for undercrops? terrestrial Lidar is the right technology for addressing these questions
- Vimala Nair - Sustainable land-application of biochar in agroforestry
Parallel session 4 "Productivity and economic performances of agroforestry" (Room: Salle A)
- Francisco J. Mesias - A participatory approach to develop new products that promote social valorization of agroforestry systems
- Patrick Boleman - Payment for ecosystem services for agroforestry riparian buffer establishment on Pennsylvania farmland
- Laura Van Vooren - Greening and producting: an economic assessment framework for integrating trees in cropping systems
- Nuria Ferreiro-Domínguez - Productivity of silvoarable systems established with Prunus avium L. in Galicia (NW spain)
- Eric Penot - Agroforestry practices to overcome prices volatility: the case of rubber in Phatthalung province, Thailand
- Ricardo Salazar-Díaz - Effect of plant diversity on the global productivity of agroforestry systems in Talamanca, Costa Rica
16h30-17h00: Coffee Break
17h00-18h30: Poster session 1
"Development of agroforestry: farmer's perceptions, barriers and incentives"
- Chloe M Mattia and Sarah Taylor Lovell - Identifying Barriers and Gateways for Agroforestry Adoption in the U.S. Corn Belt
- Frank N and Vityi A - Shelterbelts in Hungary
- Toth GG, Nair Pk, Reinolds T - European Immigration and Food Insecurity: Relevance of Lessons Learned from Agroforestry
- Constraints to Adoption of Fodder Tree Technology Affecting Smallholder Livestock Farmers in Malawi
- Asplund L and Björklund J - Agroforestry Systems in Sweden
"Environmental benefits of agroforestry"
- Zajączkowski J - Ecosystem Services by Trees Outside Forest: Should the Structure and Location of New Plantings Matter More?
- Kay S, Herzog F, Aviron S, Crous J, Den Herder M, Ferreiro Domínguez N, Garcia de Jalon S, Graves A, Moreno G, Palma J, Plieninger T, Szerencsits E, Torralba Viorreta M - Ecosystem services in agroforestry systems in Europe with an emphasis on biodiversity
- Monnier Y, Le Bissonnais Y, Maeght JL, Erktan A, Stokes A - Effects of Tree Alleys on Soil Structure and Fertility: Is There a General Pattern?
- Zsolt Keserű, Imre Csiha, János Rásó, Attila Borovics, Norbert Somogyi, Veronika Honfy - Agroforestry Research in the Forest Research Institute of the National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre (NARIC FRI), Hungary. The importance of shelterbelts: a case study from eastern Hungary
- Bruna Gumiero, Bruno Boz, Nicolò Colombani, Micol Mastrocicco, Fabiano Della Venezia, Loris Agostinetto, Federico Correale, Giustino Mezzalira - Phytodepuration Processes in Two Short Rotation Forestry Systems wthin Venice Lagoon Watershead
"Innovations in agroforestry"
- Warlop F - Un projet pour mieux connaître les systèmes agroforestiers associant fruitiers et cultures annuelles
- Schulz Jennifer and Weckenbrock Philipp - Complex agroforestry systems for Europe: inspiration from successional agroforestry
- Castel L, Ronzon J, Warlop F, Poliakoff H, Fourrié L - Agroforestry Orchards Systems - How far does biodiversity contribute to system sustainability?
- Johanna Björklund, Karin Eksvärd, Christina Schaffer - Sustainable food produc2on in Sweden – to grow and eat from perennial intercropping systems - Results from a participatory learning and action research project, 2012 - 2016
- Vityi A, Kovács K, Dufla F, Bácsmegi L, Nagy I - Improve the Efficiency of Afforestation by the Use of Agroforestry Practices
- Bouffartigue Cathy, Weckenbrock Philipp - Adapting successional agroforestry systems to an European context with collaborative methods
"Productivity and economic performances of agroforestry"
"Farmers testimony across Europe"
- Ondřej Zelba, Bohdan Lojka, Jakub Houška, Radim Kotrba, Antonín Martiník, Jan Weger - Inventory of agroforestry in Czech Republic
- Nicolas Brahic, Etienne Bonvallet, Gilles Hanula - An example of virtuous loop between the exploitation of boxwood and an organig hog farm
- Kotrba Radim and Kotrbová Linda - Perspectives of Silvopastoral Systems in Central Europe: as Example from the Czech Republic
"Tree-crop competition and facilitation"
- Caballé G, Fernández ME, Gyenge J, Schlichter T - Interactive effect of tree canopy cover and defoliation on growth of Festuca pallescens in Mediterranean silvopastoral systems in NW Patagonia, Argentina
- Smith J, Fradgley N, Wolfe MS - Developing Agroforestry-Adapted Cereals Using an Evolutionary Plant Breeding Approach
- Guillot E, Bertrand I, Dufour L, Dupraz C, Hinsinger P - Spatial soil fertility gradient in a mature agroforestry system under a Mediterranean climate
- Forey O, Wery J, Metay A - Train the youth! Effect of water stress and intercropping on peach tree growth after plantation
- Louppe D - Influence of the Shea Butter Tree on the Agricultural Productions in the North of Ivory Coast
- Camara B, Ngom D, Sanogo D, Gosme M, Dupraz C - Influence of Faiherbia Albida on Upland Rice Productivity
"Agroforestry and climate change"
- Tariq A, Gunina A, Lamersdorf N - Initial Soil Carbon Sequestration Under Mono Cultures and Short Rotation Alley Coppices with Poplar and Willow
- Vityi A and Frank N - Shelterbelt as a Best Practice of Improving Agricultural Production
- Torquebiau E, Harmand JM, Jagoret P, Rapidel B, Vaast P - Addressing climate change concerns in tropical agroforestry
- Mohamed A, Monnier Y, Mao Z, Maeght JL, Jourdan C, Sabatier S, Stokes A - Linking above- and belowground phenology of hybrid walnut in temperate agroforestry systems
"Agroforestry products: quantity, quality and diversity"
"How to assess the performance of agroforestry systems?"
"Silvopastoralism"
- Bendahan A, Poccard-Chapuis R, Pikettyd MG, Tourrand J - "Crop-Cattle-Tree" Integration in Roraima State, Brazilian Amazon
- Timmermans B and Bestman M - Quality of apple trees and apples in poultry free range areas
- Chartol C - Silvopasture in Martinique: a lever to promote carbon neutral local energy and mitigate forage shortage in a climate change context
- Emile JC, Delagarde R, Barre P, Novak S - Nutritive value and degradability of leaves from temperate woody resources for feeding ruminants in summer
19:00-22:00: Gala dinner
Tuesday 24 May
Field tour from 8am to 6pm. All tours end at the Restinclières Estate for a barbecue party from 6 pm to 9 pm. Several tours on offer on a first registered, first served basis
1. Full day at the Restinclières experimental farm (silvoarable and vineyard agroforestry, agroforestry and climate change) 100 participants max in two groups. More info here
2. Vegetable gardening agroforestry and silvopastoral systems (Vézénobres, Cévennes mountains area) 50 participants max. More info here
3. Farm scale agroforestry (Silvoarable and silvopastoral farms west of Montpellier) 50 participants max. More info here
Wednesday 25 May
8h30-11h00: Side events in parallel rooms
Parallel session 1 "Farmers testimony across Europe" (simultaneous translation available French-English) (Room: Amphi Lamour)
- Paul Burgess - Complexity and agroforestry: ways to embrace the challenge
- Mareike Jaeger - Participatory agroforestry development in Switzerland
- Tobias Plieninger - Assessing the associations between ecosystem services, use, protection and ownership of land, and self-reported well-being in an agroforestry landscape
- Sitraka Andrianarisoa and François Delbende - Understanding the acceptance or refusal of agroforestry systems by farmers in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais region (northern France)
- Kallen kallen and Egbert Sonneveld - Implementation of agroforestry practices for the recovery of degraded soils in semi-arid areas of southern Europe. case study of life operation C02 project, Ayoó de Vidriales (Spain)
- Charles Burriel - Education & Formation en Agroforesterie - Teaching & Training in Agroforestry. Building today’s and tomorrow’s agriculture
Parallel session 2 "Tree-crop competition and facilitation" (Room: Amphi 206)
- Lydie Dufour - Influence of tree pollarding on crop yield in a Mediterranean agroforestry system
- Sidonie Artru - Dealing with crop rotation in agroforestry: the impact of shade on winter wheat and sugar beet growth and yield under temperate conditions – a case study in Gembloux, Belgium
- Rory Lunny - The growth of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) varieties interplanted with willow (salix spp.)
- Daniel Inurreta - Effect of agroforestry on phenology and components of yield of different varieties of durum wheat
- Michael Kanzler - Microclimate effects due to short rotation woody crop hedgerows in Germany
- Paul Pardon - Ecological interactions between tree, crop, soil and environment in alley cropping systems in Flanders
- Khalid Daoui - Optimization of spatial soil occupation in rainfed intercropping system based on olive trees and annual crops in northern morocco
Parallel session 3 "Agroforestry and climate change" (Room: Amphi 2)
- Rosa Mosquera-Losada - Agroforestry as tool to mitigate and adapt to climate under Lulucf accounting
- Alberto Mantino - Cropping among trees to cope with climate change. insights from cereal yield cultivated in walnut plantations of central Spain
- Juliette Grimaldi - Microclimate patterns in an agroforestry intercropped vineyard: first results
- Marie Gosme - Microclimatic effect of agroforestry on diurnal temperature cycle
- Rémi Vezy - Effect of shade on temperature mitigation and canopy assimilation of coffee agroforestry systems
- Antonio Brunori - From ancient olive agroforestry systems to modern conventional and organic olive monocultures: historical evolution of greenhouse gas emissions
- Manuel Bertomeu - Carbon sequestration in intensive hardwood plantations: influence of management
- Rémi Cardinael - Increase of soil organic carbon stock under agroforestry: a survey of different sites in France
- Naresh Thevathasan - Tree-based intercropping systems: a potential land-use solution for climate change mitigation in Canadian agricultural landscapes
Parallel session 4 "Agroforestry products: quantity, quality and diversity" (Room: Salle A)
- Gerardo Moreno - Agroforestry systems of high natural and cultural value in Europe: structure, management, goods and services
- Vladimir Ivezić - Relative crop yields of European silvoarable agroforestry systems
- Serge-Stéphane Kouakou - The quality of poplar wood from agroforestry: a comparison with forest plantation
- Pierluigi Paris - Growth and yield results of timber trees mixed with poplar src: 8 years of an experimental plot in Po valley
- Anastasia Pantera - Olive trees intercropped with cereals and legumes in Kassandra peninsula, northern Greece
- Anastasia Pantera - Olive groves intercropped in Molos, central Greece, Greek group: preliminary results
- Adolfo Rosati - Olive (Olea europea l.) and wild asparagus (Asparagus acutifolius l.) agroforestry system: intercrop performance and its best positioning in the olive orchard
- Pierluigi Paris - Inter-specific interactions on the light, water and nitrogen availability in a young poplar silvoarable system
- Jaconette Mirck - Sugar beet yields and soil moisture measurements in an alley cropping system
11h00-13h00: Poster session 2
13h00-14h30: Lunch
14h30-16h30: Side events in parallel rooms:
Parallel session 1 "How to assess the performance of agroforestry systems?" (Room: Amphi Lamour)
- Antonio Brunori - Sustainable management criteria for agroforestry in the European union
- Anne Berger - Modern agroforestry in Switzerland: a contribution to sustainable development?
- Rico Hübner - Landscape metrics calculation to optimize the aesthetics of future agroforestry systems and its application within a decision support tool
- Lieve Borremans - Nurturing agroforestry systems in Flanders: stakeholder analysis and value chain approach
- Douglas Warner - A guidance tool to support farmers with ecological focus areas – the benefits of agroforestry for ecosystem services and biodiversity
- Alain Olivier - Integrating agroforestry intercropping systems in intensive agricultural landscapes: a SWOT-AHP analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions
Parallel session 2 "Updates on agroforestry policies across Europe" (Room: Amphi 206)
- Gerry Lawson - Options for agroforestry in the EU CAP 2014-2020
- Rosa Mosquera-Losada - CAP and agroforestry practices in Europe
- Rosa Mosquera-Losada - Agroforestry in the CAP: eligibility, and cross-compliance or conditionality
- Rosa Mosquera-Losada - Agroforestry in the rural development CAP: pillar II
- Robert Borek - Agroforestry in Poland – the current state and policy perspectives
- PK Nair - Agroforestry and good governance: a comparison of the agroforestry policy frameworks in the EU and the USA
Parallel session 3 "Silvopastoralism" (Room: Amphi 2)
- Edward Green - Forgotten food – tree hay (leaf fodder) for domesticated stock
- Alberto Mantino - Yield and nutritive value of alfalfa (Medicago sativa l.) in an olive (Olea europaea l.) alley-cropping practice
- Sandra Novak - Integrating agroforestry into an innovative mixed crop-dairy system
- Adolfo Rosati - When chickens graze the olive orchard, the environmental impact of both chicken rearing and olive growing decreases
Parallel session 4 "Agroforestry modelling" (Room: Salle A)
- Sidonie Artru - Are crop models able to efficiently simulate crop growth under shade?
- Christian Dupraz - Agroforestry at all latitudes? unexpected results about best designs to allow more light to the crops at various latitudes
- Joao Palma - Keeping a parameter-sparse concept in agroforestry modelling while integrating new processes and dynamics: new developments in yield-safe
- Joao Palma - Exploring yieldsafe model to assess hypothetical eucalyptus silvopastoral systems in Portugal
- Josep Crous-Duran - Modelling holm oak acorn production in south-western Iberia
- Silvestre Garcia de Jalon - Assessing the environmental externalities of arable, forestry, and silvoarable systems: new developments in farm-safe
16h30-17h00: Coffee Break
17h00-17h30: Official closing of the conference (Patrick Worms) (video of the presentation). EURAF Awards Ceremony
Optional : for EURAF members only
18h00-21h00: EURAF General Assembly
Download the Conference Programme, the Plenary Sessions Programme and the Detailed Programme of the Scientific Sessions
Call for abstracts
The deadline for submitting abstracts is over
The call for abstract (oral communication and poster presentation) is now open. The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of February 2016. Authors will be informed about the selection of their abstract before March 15. All papers related to agroforestry are welcome, with a focus on temperate agroforestry. Papers dealing with tropical agroforestry may be accepted if they are relevant to some of the scheduled sessions. Authors may suggest a session for their abstract. Papers describing agroforestry initiatives, practices and skills are welcome, even if they don't meet the usual scientific rules, but should be written in English. They will be considered for the Plenary session 2 : Farmers testimony across Europe.
A special session about farmers skills and practices is scheduled on May 25 morning, and targeted abstracts are welcome. Oral communications by farmers are strongly encouraged. The language for abstracts should be english, but contact us if this is limiting your contribution.
The abstract submission o over. We keep the the guidelines for submission just for reference.
If you are part of the Reviewing Scientific Commitee follow this link.
Scientific Committee of the Conference:
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Joana Amaral Paulo |
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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Robert Borek |
Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, Pulawy, Poland |
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Paul Burgess |
Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK |
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Christian Dupraz |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France |
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Nuria Ferreiro Domínguez |
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Dirk Freese |
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany |
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Pilar González-Hernández |
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Marie Gosme |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France |
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Tibor Hartel |
Sapientia Hungarian University, Miercurea-Ciuc, Hungary |
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Norbert Lamersdorf |
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
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Bohdan Lojka |
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Delphine Mézière |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France |
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Gerardo Moreno |
University of Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain |
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Rosa Mosquera |
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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João Palma |
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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Anastasia Pantera |
Technological Educational Institute, Karpenissi, Greece |
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Piero Paris |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Porano, Italy |
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Andrea Pisanelli |
Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale, Porano, Italy |
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Tobias Plieninger |
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Bert Reubens |
Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek, Merelbeke, Belgium |
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Adolfo Rosati |
Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura, Spoleto, Italy |
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Jo Smith |
Organic Research Centre, Newbury, UK |
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Andrea Vityi |
University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary |
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Gerry Lawson |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
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Mercedes Rois |
European Forest Institute |
Registration and conference fees
To register, follow this REGISTRATION link to the Alphavisa site.
Early bird fee extended until 11th March
| Before March 1st | After March 1st | |
| Conference fees for EURAF members | 250 € | 300 € |
| Conference fees for EURAF non-members | 300 € | 350 € |
| Conference fees for students | 150 € | 200 € |
| Conference fees for farmers | 200 € | 250 € |
| Options | ||
| Field trip and Evening programme May 24 (also open to accompanying persons) | 80 € | |
| Gala dinner for accompanying persons | 70 € | |
| Late bird additional charge (after March 1 2016) | 50 € | |
| EURAF annual membership (special Congress rate, usual rate for individual members is 30 €) | 20 € |
Notes :
- No refund for cancellations after May 1. Cancellation fees before May 1 are 50 %
- Your EURAF membership will be controlled by EURAF authorities.
- EURAF members having paid their fees in 2015 and/or 2016 are granted the reduced rate
- Please note that only EURAF members are allowed to participate in the EURAF General Assembly scheduled after the Conference (May 25 at 17:00)
- Please confirm that you will be participating in the banquet on May 23 8pm included in the registration package :
- The registration fees include conference proceedings, the conference backpack, a nametag, access to all conference sessions and receptions, the lunches and coffee breaks on 23 and 25 May, the conference banquet on May 23 and the opportunity to register for housing and the 24 May field tour
- If you register for the field trip, could you please select the field tours by order of choice (1 to 3). The tours will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
- The lunch is included in the price of the field tour
- All tours end at the Restinclières castle for a barbecue party from 6 pm to 9 pm
Tours:
- Full day at the Restinclières experimental farm (silvoarable and vineyard agroforestry, agroforestry and climate change) 100 participants max in two groups
- Vegetable gardening agroforestry and silvopastoral systems (Vézénobres, Cévennes mountains) 50 participants max
- Farm scale agroforestry (Silvoarable : Domaine de Perdiguier; silvopastoral : Domaine de Pomy) 50 participants max
Venue
The conference will take place at the INRA-SUP'AGRO campus in the center of Montpellier (close to the famous "Arceaux" aquaduct). The Philippe Lamour amphitheater (380 seats) will be used for plenary sessions.
More info here
Call for the EURAF General Assembly
The EURAF General Assembly will be convened after the Conference, on May 25, from 17:30 until 20:30. The Assembly will elect the EURAF Officers for the next two years. The Assembly is restricted to EURAF members. EURAF membership can be obtained at registration, or on the premises before the Assembly. The EURAF General Assembly will be available by streaming on the internet, allowing all members to take part (including in the votes) from any place.
One day post-tour : "Visit Agroforestry pilot farms in SW France"
On May 26th the French Agroforestry Association AFAF will organise an optional field tour in the southwestern part of the country. Here are some more information about the provisional programme of the day and the logistics.
When: Thursday May 26th, 9:30 through 17:00
Where: In the Toulouse area, 250 km west from Montpellier with direct train connections
What: You will get the chance to visit some of France's most innovative commercial agroforestry farms and meet the farmers! This event will be taking place in the action area of the multi-partner Agr'eau Programme managed by AFAF and co-funded by the local Water Agency.
Agr'eau is a farmer-centred, networking initiative aiming at developing a resource-efficient, eco-friendly, climate-smart agriculture across the Adour-Garonne water catchment (south-west of France). It takes an integrated landscape approach to water and soil management, by complementing local agroforestry know-how with no-till, cover crop farming practices.
On the programme:
- An arable farm
- A mixed crop-livestock farm
- A former silk production site with nearly 200-year old pollards converted into a sylvopastoral system
- A poultry farm
How:We will meet at 9:15 at Toulouse train station. The best option would be to travel from Montpellier the night before (the latest train leaving Montpellier for Toulouse is at 21:30).
Alternatively, you can travel in the morning from Montpellier, although you will have to get up a bit early in such case as trains take approx. 2h50 to connect the two cities. But it is doable if you really need/want to, as there is a train reaching Toulouse at 9:04 that leaves Montpellier around 6:15...
Travelling by car is also possible if you have your own (or a rented one) or if you find someone to give you a lift :-). (see registration link hereafter for this particular point)
From train station to the field: a coach will be organised.
Lunch: it will be organised as well, either as a buffet on one of the farms or at a nearby restaurant. In any case, we will make sure you can eat agroforestry food from the local producers! Including red ham from a traditional breed of black pig (the French pata negra! :-)
Returning from the field: the bus will take you back to the train station at 17:30. From there, you will have access to all types of public transports. If you are planning to fly right in the evening you will be able to reach the airport in just 30 min. Or you can have a nice end of the day visiting the city...
Registration fee: €50 for organisational costs (lunch included).
Please register HERE before May 1st (spaces are limited and available on a first-come first-served basis, don't wait too long!).
More detailed information on the programme and other organisational aspects will be provided the week before the event.
Looking forward to having you here!
The French Agroforestry Association.
Organisers and sponsors
