REFOREST Knowledge Hub

Planning the agroforestry project, including objectives, market research, financial planning, choice of trees, planting arrangement, establishment and management operations.

Establishment

Planting the trees and ensuring their survival and flourishing in the early years, including protection from pests and diseases, mulching and irrigation.

Tree/system health & productivity

The performance of the agroforestry trees including their growth and yields of different products (timber, nuts, fruit), survival rate and resistance to pests and diseases.

Management

Operations to look after the trees during their life cycle, which may include pruning, root pruning, other canopy management (e.g. pollarding), mulching, beating up and re-staking, understorey management.

Carbon

Carbon cycling in agroforestry, in particular the withdrawal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and storage of carbon in above and below ground biomass and in soils.

Biodiversity

Variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level to be found within an agroforestry system. Species of wild flora and fauna supported by agroforestry include those of functional importance for agriculture (agrobiodiversity, including pollinators and predators of pests) as well as species of conservation importance.

Other ecosystem service delivery

The goods and services provided by agroforestry, including provisioning services (e.g. food and water), regulating services (e.g. flood and disease control), cultural services (e.g. spiritual, recreational, and cultural benefits) and supporting services (e.g. nutrient cycling).

Market development

Opportunities for the sale of direct outputs from the tree component of agroforestry systems, including long-established markets such as timber, fuel and food, more niche markets such as biochar and Christmas trees, and ecosystem markets such as carbon and biodiversity.

Economic performance

The profitability of agroforestry taking into account revenue from all products (tree and non-tree) and fixed costs.

Policy & regulation

National, regional and local laws that govern how and where agroforestry can be undertaken, including subsidy support.

Silvoarable

The integration of trees into an arable farming system.

Silvopastoral

The integration of trees into a grazing farming system.

Woodland grazing / Wood
pasture

Providing pasture for grazing animals among woodland and in more open parkland/savanna landscapes.

Silvopoultry

The integration of trees into a poultry farming system.

Silvohorticulture

The integration of trees into a fruit and vegetable.

Forest farming

Using forested areas to harvest naturally occurring speciality crops.

Orchards

System focussed on fruit and/or nut production with potential to use the land between the trees for other productive or recreational purpose.

Dehesa / Montado

Oak rangelands in Spain and Portugal combining trees, crops and livestock.

Hedgerows, shelterbelts and riparian buffer strips

Linear forms of agroforestry where trees are grown between parcels of land or along rivers.

Livestock (meat)

Farm in which domesticated animal production (e.g. cattle, sheep, pigs) is the predominant enterprise.

Livestock (dairy)

Livestock farm where the animals are principally for milk production.

Horticulture

Farm in which growing fruit and vegetables for food, and/or plants for gardens/ornament, is the prodominant enterprise.

Arable

Farm in which the growing of cereals, oil crops, bean crops and root crops is the predominant enterprise.

Mixed

Farm in which crop and livestock production is integrated, often purposefully to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions.

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Link to REFOREST website
https://agroreforest.eu/

Link to the EMEA website
https://euromed-economists.org