Integrating trees into horticultural systems offers opportunities to diversify the business as well as realise environmental benefits. This workshop took place on 19th September at Tolhurst Organic was organised by the Organic Research Centre as part of the AFINET and AGFORWARD projects focused on providing practical advice and pointers on how to successfully implement an agroforestry system […]
Because of the growing interest in agroforestry in Flanders and the raised questions on how to apply agroforestry in horticulture, the Consortium ‘Agroforestry in Flanders’ organised in September 2017 an excursion to the UK. With a group of fifty interested farmers and researchers, we visited Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Martyn Bragg (Shillingford Organics), Duchy […]
The international conference “Wooded rural landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe: biodiversity, cultural legacy and conservation,” organized by University of Rzeszów (Poland) and Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, has been held in Rzeszów and Bükk National Park on 20-25 September 2017. The aim of the meeting was to identify major problems of wooded rural landscapes in […]
The first Hungarian Regional Agroforestry Innovation Network meeting took place on 14 September 2017 in Szent István University (SZIE) Faculty of Horticultural Science in Budapest. Vityi Andrea (project coordinator) and Fábián Zsófia (innovation broker – IB) from SoE-KKK -University of Sopron Cooperational Research Centre Nonprofit Ltd. chaired the meeting. The event was attended by 10 […]
The members of the French AFINET RAIN met for the first time on September 25th, 2017 at the Forestry Development Institute in Toulouse. Fabien Balaguer (Innovation Broker for France) chaired the meeting with contributions from Philippe Van Lerberghe, from the Forestry Development Institute. 14 participants attended this first meeting, representing about 2/3 of the official […]
