Agroforestry in Sweden

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Agroforestry with standard fruit trees in Switzerland - Improving production and enhancing biodiversity

Why plant fruit trees?

There are various reasons why farmers in Switzerland have increasingly combined fruit trees with crops in recent years. One important motivation is to reduce soilverosion, and other benefits include thevreduction of nitrate leaching, and increased carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

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Agroforestry on municipally owned sites - example Donzdorf (Germany)

Between 2007 and 2010 the city established five agroforestry plots with trees for valuable timber production on city-owned land, sized 0,15 to 0,75 ha. The city decided for valuable timber trees, among other reasons because it couldn’t guarantee the maintenance of traditional orchard trees on the selected plots in the long-term.

Agroforestry in Sweden

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Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Squashes in SRC silvoarable system

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

Whitehall Farm, Cambs, UK, apples and arable

Darliner Farm

Montado + cattle

2nd EURAF Conference, 4-6 June 2014, Cottbus, Germany

Olive tree silvarable-pastoral system, near Viterbo, Italy

Agroforestry in Sweden

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