The first RAIN was held in Italy at the Orvieto Municipality the 15th September 2017 and was focused on the olive multipurpose system taking into account the whole olive oil chain. Great participation at the RAIN meeting with 27 stakeholders, including farmers (12), multipliers such as members of trade associations and citizens (8), researchers (6) […]
1st RAIN meeting in Portugal

After several weeks of intense dissemination of the 1st PT RAIN meeting, a total of 30 RAIN members attended the 1st Portuguese meeting, that took place on the 12th of September, at the Observatório do Sobreiro e da Cortiça in Coruche. Joana Amaral Paulo (the Innovation Broker) and João Palma from ISA chaired the meeting […]
The first RAIN meeting in Finland

“The first Finnish Regional Agroforestry Innovation Network meeting took place on 14 September 2017 on a farm called Putkisalo Kartano near Rantasalmi in the Finnish lake district. Michael den Herder (the Innovation Broker) from the European Forest Institute and Henri Vanhanen from Natural Resources Institute Finland chaired the meeting. Ten stakeholders (farmers, researchers, advisors) attended […]
1st RAIN meeting in Spain

On September 12th, the first Regional Innovation Agroforestry Network meeting was held in Galicia, Spain. The event was attended by nearly 30 participants, almost half of them practitioners. Within the group there were farmers, advisors, Rural Development technicians, members of the Galician Office of Climate Change, and the Galician Innovation Agency. The meeting took place […]
Report on agroforestry in Belgian national media

On the 22nd of July, a report on agroforestry was broadcasted on the Belgian national radio channel ‘Radio 1’, during the programme ‘Bonus’. Furthermore, the same day an article on agroforestry was published at the news website www.deredactie.be. The radio report can be listened through this link, while the article can be read through this link (both in Dutch). More […]











