RAINS have already met four times in the nine participating countries of the project, and has started to develop innovations from the requested challenges all over Europe. Some of the AFINET innovation factsheets aim to tackle the knowledge gaps identified by agroforestry stakeholders over the RAIN meetings across Europe. These factsheets include information regarding the […]
On 7-9 May 2019 AFINET partners visited Hungary and met in Sopron to share and discuss their plans on future project activities. Several issues were address over the meeting, such as cooperations of the nine regional agroforestry networks for creation of new innovations materials, the best ways of dissemination of these innovations, as well as […]
On the 30th of April the Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project visited agroforestry home gardens working with the Local Food Network of Mértola, by invitation of the Municipality. Mértola Municipality has recently started an initiative to implement a Local Food Network based on agroforestry and syntrophic practices. This initiative is a partnership between […]
The Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project, Joana Amaral Paulo participated in “Ovibeja”, an agricultural fair that includes several events, professional and educational stands, and conferences. The Portuguese AFINET IB was invited to speak at a conference named “Climate change- impacts in Mediterranean farming and forestry”. Her presentation titled “Impact of climate change on […]
The 2nd conference on forestry management, territory and natural risks took place on the 17th of April, in Grândola, on the Alentejo region of Portugal. Joana Amaral Paulo, portuguese Innovation Broker from the AFINET project, spoke on this event about cork and holm oak Montado systems, showing the results of a study about the trends of Montado […]
