In March 2025, AFaktive’s coordinator, the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), was contacted by the Rhein-Zeitung newspaper. Project leader Jörg Böhmer was interviewed in the framework of an article about AFaktive and agroforestry. The journalist was also interested in visiting an agroforestry site and interviewing the farmer. Long-standing IfaS partner Hans Pfeffer agreed […]

In Germany, modern agroforestry systems can only be recorded in the farmland register since 2023. The potential of agroforestry, especially in times of climate change with extreme weather events such as drought and heavy rainfall, is enormous. It is crucial for the agricultural sector to maintain the productive capacity of farmland. However, knowledge about agroforestry

Admittedly, the long title might seem a little complicated: Testing specific fields of action for the implementation of near-natural watercourse development as part of a feasibility study – ElmaR III. This is a solution suggestion on how to achieve the objectives of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) in practice. This is urgently needed,

On 17th and 18th March 2025, a new agroforestry system was planted as a demonstration site at the Lerchenhof farm in Jesewitz (Saxony, Germany). This is part of the AFaktive sibling project AGROfloW. In beautiful sunshine, the LIGNOVIS team, together with organic farmer Robert Künne and parts of the AGROfloW project team (IfaS), planted 3,650

In the week of 24th March 2025, Saxony’s largest agroforestry system was planted on 77 hectares of arable land on the border of the municipalities of Thallwitz & Lossatal in the district of Leipzig on the land of Agrargenossenschaft e.G. Böhlitz. This was part of the AFaktive sibling project AGROfloW. Representatives of the Saxon State

Joint call for better framework conditions for agroforestry Agroforestry Now! (Agroforst Jetzt!) is an initiative to improve the framework conditions for agroforestry in Germany. It is a temporary coming together of various organisations to give agroforestry a new impulse. The initiative is coordinated by the non-profit organisation ProjectTogether and brings together professional associations, science and

On Monday 17th February 2025, the AFaktive team from the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management, IfaS (Trier University of Applied Sciences) attended the kick-off meeting of the “Soonwald-Nahe Sponge Region” project in Bad Kreuznach. In a presentation from IfaS, stakeholders from agriculture and forestry, local residents and representatives from government agencies and authorities were

On Thursday, Feb. 13th 2025, the pilot farmers involved in the AFaktive project met with the Field Implementation Partners from the project consortium for a “Farmers Day”. The meeting that was organised by the leader of the project work package on farm implementation, Marco Bijl, Forestry Service Group, and brought together more than 20 participants.

On the 27th and 28th January, the AFaktive team was active in Belgium, equipping two project agroforestry sites with measuring devices. One of the sites is an experimentation plot of the project partner Inagro – an institute in Belgium conducting research and advice in agriculture and horticulture. Here, a transect with nine soil moisture sensors

The AFaktive team was very active in Germany from 3rd to 6th February. Specifically, two project sites were equipped with measuring sensors. On 3rd February, the AFaktive IfaS team (Institute for Applied Material Flow Management) was in Saxony at the Uherek farm project site. There, the team met with a working group from Martin Luther