The INCREDIBLE Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) will select the five most innovative ideas with the potential to increase the environmental, economic or social value of Mediterranean non-wood forest products (NWFPs). OIC winners will be invited to attend the INCREDIBLE business acceleration programme organised by leading forestry and business experts. The initiative responds to challenges for […]
This two-day event will take place on Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 June 2019 in Almere, the Netherlands, and the EIP-Agri service point is looking for participants! Farmers and farmers’ organisations, agroforesters, entrepreneurs, SMEs, start-ups, advisory services, universities, research technology organisations, rural networks, and anyone who may be involved in relevant projects or has experience […]
The fourth Finnish AFINET workshop was held on 26 February in Joensuu. Michael den Herder, the Innovation Broker of the Finnish AFINET stakeholder network says that agroforestry starts gaining interest in Finland too. The presentations during the first part of the day showed how additional income can be gained from the cultivation of stinging nettle Urtica dioica, American gingseng Panax quinquefolium, mushrooms and hops Humulus lupulus. In […]
The fourth portuguese Regional Agroforestry Innovation Network meeting took place on the 27th of February 2019 at Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) in Lisbon. 35 RAIN members attended the meeting, which started with a brief summary of the project’s activities on the last six months, and a presentation of the first dissemination materials by Joana Amaral […]
Around 30 people attended the first cork inet inter-regional workshop from the Incredible project, which took place in ISA, Lisbon, Portugal. The meeting was dedicated to the subject: ‘Genetic variation of cork oak, a tool for regeneration of cork oak woodlands’. This topic, of high relevance for many of the Portuguese AFINET RAIN members working with […]
