Video AFINET

Agroforestry (AF) is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions.

Do you have two minutes? Meet AgroForestry Innovation NETwork. AFINET aims to increase the use of agroforestry systems, a smart way to do agriculture.

A revitalization of a wood pasture in the Bakony

AFINET – 3rd RAIN meetings

Between June and October 2018, more than 270 agents of the agroforestry sector from all over Europe met in the 9 regions where the AFINET project is acting.

AFINET Portuguese RAIN first meeting

Take a look how did it go the first portuguese RAIN meeting attended by a total of 30 RAIN members. During the meeting the participants were asked to identify bottlenecks/knowledge gaps and challenges/innovations from agroforestry systems covering silvopastoral, silvoarable and tree hedgerows systems.

AFINET UK first workshop – Tree Fodder

In May 2017, Organic Research Centre held the first AFINET UK Workshop. Sharing Knowledge, improving practice and enhancing livelihoods were the aims of the meeting.

Agroforestry and Water Management

Agroforestry in the UK

Beef cattle farming on wooded pastures

Meet Marcin Wójcik, a farmer in the Low Beskid Mountains. His farm is an organic farm with bovine meat production where they are introducing various agroforestry practices

E depois dos incêndios? O caso do montado

Visita a Grândola, a um montado atingido pelos graves fogos florestais ocorridos em Portugal, durante o ano de 2017. Como retomar o potencial produtivo?

Free-range pigs in agroforestry systems

Fruit trees in the field – Crown relief pruning, Diagnosis and implementation

Making a pollard

On a buffer strip, at the boundary of an arable field, farmer Vincent Blagny is showing us how to pollard naturally established ash trees. Why so? The answers seem obvious: buffer strips can become, for farmers and other users, a productive space providing low cost biomass and biodiversity, fostering sustainable and profitable agricultural development at both farm and landscape level.

Managing trees for the production of high-quality fruit

Fruit and nut trees offer ecological and economic benefits.Learn with this innovation tutorial how to optimize the management to produce high-quality fruit!

Managing understory in cork oak Montado

Olive tree pruning in a silvopastoral system: production pruning and frost damage recovery

The pruning of the olive trees is one of the most expensive management components which, in ordinary climatic conditions, has the greatest influence on olives production. Simplified polyconic vase pruning limits the variability of production keeping the trees in balance, favoring high and constant productivity.

Rotational cattle farming in traditional orchard

Seminário Gestão Agroflorestal Pós-Fogos em Montado

Sheep as forest managers

Otto Makkonen introduces the Vaahermäki farm, an agroforestry system combining sheep and forests.