Around 30 people attended the 3rd Portuguese RAIN meeting, which took place in EDIA’s headquarters in Beja, Portugal, on the 12th of September 2018. As the event begun José Salema (EDIA) and Joana Amaral Paulo (ISA) welcomed the attendees. During his communication José Salema mentioned how important it is to search for management model alternatives that should […]
Sheep as landscape and forest managers

On Monday 20 August, members of the Finnish Agroforestry Innovation Network met to see how landscape and forest management can be combined with sheep herding. The fieldtrip/workshop was hosted by Vaahermäen lammastila (@vaahermaki), a sheep farm in Savonranta, eastern Finland. Some quite large forest areas belong to the farm. The farm keeps Finnsheep (Suomenlammas) which graze freely […]
Polish RAIN members validate the list of agroforestry innovations during the third meeting

The third Polish Regional Agroforestry Innovation Network meeting was held on 10th July 2018, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m in the Central Agicultural Advisory Centre at Kraków. The meeting was chaired by Robert Borek and Małgorzata Gałczyńska. 22 stakeholders attended the 3rd RAIN meeting, half of them being practitioners (farmers/foresters). Considering the results of second […]
Hungarian RAIN. Third meeting takes three days of visiting farms and exchanging experiences

The 3rd Hungarian RAIN meeting was organized in two parts. On 2nd of June, the stakeholders took part in the celebration of shepherds and wood pasture in Olaszfalu, a small village near the lake Balaton. During the morning lectures, we gained insight into professional and cultural aspects of shepherding: everyday life, traditions and the present of […]
New EIP-AGRI Operational Group working on innovation in silvo-arable system has been established in Poland

Operation under the title “Innovative model of herbs production, processing and distribution in the Zielawa Valley” has been chosen for realisation within the Activity Cooperation under the Rural Development Programme for the years 2014-2020. Cooperation initiated by the Lublin Eco-Energy Cluster has led to creation of the EIP-AGRI Operational Group „Agroforestry in Zielawa Valley”. The […]











