With its special focus on water management, the AFaktive project has set out its project monitoring to measure in particular the effects of agroforestry on the water balance in the landscape. In the AFaktive consortium, Royal Eijkelkamp supplies measuring devices that will be installed at AFaktive agroforestry farms, in order to provide data as input for the research on the effectiveness of agroforestry. Such devices, e.g. soil moisture equipment, meteo stations, (ground) water monitoring equipment and the like, will give the project team the necessary insights into values such as soil humidity, water levels and quality, evaporation, surface run off, etc. In turn, this will allow to draw conclusions on the role of trees for water management at farm level.
Royal Eijkelkamp is a family business offering a wide range of solutions for soil and water projects around the world. Based in the Netherlands, the company is represented in more than 90 countries. Their innovative solutions, coupled with the knowledge and expertise of soil and water specialists at Royal Eijkelkamp, help projects with the measuring of water and soil values, thereby offering valuable monitoring tools.