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Agroforestry Policy Briefings? Why?

1. Agroforestry and the new CAP's Green Architecture

2. Agroforestry in the EU Forest Strategy

3. Agroforestry and CAP Direct Payments

4. Agroforestry and Enhanced Conditionality

5. Agroforestry and Ecoschemes

6. Agroforestry and Pillar II of the new CAP

7. Agroforestry CAP Monitoring

8. Agroforestery for Carbon Farming

9. AF Policy in England

10. EURAF reacts to the Commission's advice on CAP SPs

11. EU Agroforestry Policy for a North American Audience

12. EURAF reacts to the EU "Fit for 55 Package"

13. EURAF welcomes the “EU Soil Strategy for 2030”

14. Agroforestry in the CAP post 01/01/2023

15. Monitoring Trees Outside Forests in the EU

16. Agroforestry for the Green Deal transition

17. ENVI amendments fatally weaken the LULUCF Regulation

18. Agroforestry and the EU Nature Restoration Regulation

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Commercial apple orchards in poultry freerange areas - Increase revenues from your investment in animal welfare

Why plant trees?

A free range area contributes to chicken welfare. However, chickens prefer range areas with shelter provided by trees, bushes or artificial structures. A farm with 10,000 chickens needs a range area of 4 hectares. Planting such a large area with trees is a big investment. Introducing commercial fruit trees is one way to add a valuable revenue stream. Every fruit species has particular needs and some will require additional investment. For example, cherry trees require netting for protection against birds. This leaflet explains the requirements of incorporating apple trees into a free range poultry system.

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Featured Farm of the day

Silvopastoral Agroforestry System on the farm Eichhof, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The Riecken family is converting their dairy farm Eichhof in northern Germany to a silvopastoral agroforestry farm. Felix and his sister Sina Riecken, young farmers of just 26 and 28 years, see agroforestry as an appropriate way to solve burning problems of the world, such as the acute danger of climate change.

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Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

Iberian pig feeding on holm oak acorns

Clover ley and apple trees

Willow silvopasture

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Mixed livestock browsing in holm oak montado

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley

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