On the 10th of July 2017, the 1st RAIN meeting was organised in Belgium. Twenty-one people, most of which being farmers, attended this meeting, that was organised at ILVO in Merelbeke (Ghent). The meeting started with a visit to an experimental agroforestry field at ILVO, where a variety trial of hazelnut trees was recently established, and where […]
On 5th July 2017, the first Regional Innovation Agroforestry Network meeting was held in Poland. The event was located in Popielno in headquarters of the Research Station of the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn. The meeting was chaired by Robert Borek and Małgorzata Gałczyńska (IB). 26 people (half of them […]
We have promoted AFINET at a number of high profile national events in the UK this summer; including Agroforestry 2017 on 22nd June (the first national conference on Agroforestry in the UK), National Organic Combinable Crops 6th July the largest on-farm event for UK organic farmers and the Allerton Trust annual open day on the 28th June at […]
AFINET project progresses and partners held the second consortium meeting on 20-21st June in Newbury (UK) by the Organic Research Center (ORC). AFINET Innovation Brokers presented first progress on the RAINs creation in each country. All first RAIN meeting will be held before the end of September. Partners exchanged also ideas about how to communicate and […]
After several weeks of intense dissemination of the 1st PT RAIN meeting, the number of participants is increasing. Even so, several institutions and participants have informed about difficulties in attending the date of the 14th of July. In an attempt to maximize the number of attendances in the meeting, a new date was defined for […]
