Innovation leaflets
Because successful and sustainable agroforestry practices are best developed by farmers and land owners working in partnership with researchers, extension staff, and other rural businesses, AGFORWARD used a participatory approach to ensure the effective involvement of all these stakeholders. In total, the project worked with 40 stakeholder groups and over 800 farmers and other stakeholders across 13 countries.
In this following list, you will find a synthesis of the key innovations to systems. All are individually available in each farmer stakeholder group webpage.
All the major agroforestry systems in Europe were represented from Mediterranean areas in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal to the boreal areas of Sweden, and from grazed orchards in the UK to the wood pastures of Romania.
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01 Establishing pastures rich in legumes (625,6 KiB)- 02 Triticale in iberian dehesas (669,8 KiB)
- 03 Fast rotational intensive grazing (379,8 KiB)
- 04 Tree regeneration in grazed wood pastures (508,1 KiB)
- 05 Managing shrub encroachment in cork oak montado (458,0 KiB)
- 06 Modelling livestock carrying capacity in montados (501,9 KiB)
- 07 Rediscovering valonia oak acorns (532,3 KiB)
- 08 Shade tolerant legumes (553,5 KiB)
- 09 Multi-functional hedgerows in thebocage system in France (1,6 MiB)
- 10 Invisible fencing in wood pasture (568,5 KiB)
- 11 Trees and the restoration of waterways in the Spreewald floodplain (724,1 KiB)
- 12 Restoration of abandoned wood pasture (518,3 KiB)
- 13 Protecting large old trees in wood pastures (475,0 KiB)
- 14 Grazing and biodiversity in Transylvanian wood pastures (472,1 KiB)
- 15 Enhancing reindeer husbandry in boreal Sweden (454,8 KiB)
- 16 Grazing sheep under walnut trees (548,3 KiB)
- 17 Protecting trees in chestnut stands grazed with Celtic pigs (472,8 KiB)
- 18 New approaches for producing selected varieties of chestnut (482,7 KiB)
- 19 Wild asparagus in olive orchards (560,2 KiB)
- 20 Olive trees intercropped with chickpeas (456,6 KiB)
- 21 Olive trees intercropped with cereals and legumes (497,3 KiB)
- 22 Orange trees intercropped with legumes (608,2 KiB)
- 23 Apple orchards grazed in France (550,3 KiB)
- 24 Economic benefits of grazed apple orchards in England (528,0 KiB)
- 25 Key challenges of orchard grazing (504,6 KiB)
- 26 Farming with pollards (500,0 KiB)
- 27 Cropping cereals among timber trees (442,5 KiB)
- 28 Productivity and quality of maize under cherry trees (530,3 KiB)
- 29 Intercropping medicinal plants under cherry timber trees (530,6 KiB)
- 30 Organic crops in olive orchards (650,5 KiB)
- 31 Understorey management in alley cropping systems in France (552,5 KiB)
- 32 Hybrid poplar and oak along drainage ditches (501,1 KiB)
- 33 Walnut and cherry trees with cereals in Greece (865,5 KiB)
- 34 Agroforestry and decentralised food and energy production (525,7 KiB)
- 35 Managing the tree understorey for food and biodiversity (591,7 KiB)
- 36 Yield and climate change adaptation using alley cropping (540,2 KiB)
- 37 Agroforestry with standard fruit trees in Switzerland (603,1 KiB)
- 38 Weed suppression in alley cropping in Hungary (481,4 KiB)
- 39 Commercial apple orchards in poultry free-range areas (565,2 KiB)
- 40 Silvopoultry establishing a sward under the trees (501,4 KiB)
- 41 Lactating sows integrated with energy crops (579,6 KiB)
- 42 Pigs and poplars (465,2 KiB)
- 43 Mulberry Morus spp for livestock feeding (542,9 KiB)
- 44 Fodder trees for micronutrient supply in grass based dairy systems (580,7 KiB)
- 45 Fodder trees on dairy farms (529,0 KiB)
- 46 Combining organic livestock and bioenergy production (587,2 KiB)