Despite agroforestry being integrated more frequently into strategies, policies and funding, the policy framework for its widespread practical adoption remains inadequate. This is particularly true regarding AFaktive core topic, the intersection between agroforestry and water management. As a matter of fact, the legal and policy frameworks for land use and water management are, in most […]

Agroforestry systems bring nature conservation and environmental protection to the cultivated landscape if WE manage to establish these crops on farms. This was the topic of discussion on 1st December 2025 at the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture: DeFAF e.V. (MODEMA project) and 3N Kompetenzzentrum Niedersachsen e.V. jointly organised the conference ‘Agroforestry systems as production-integrated compensation

For the third time after the interventions of the Head of Department Thomas Anton & Managing Director Prof. Dr. Peter Heck, the IfaS institute (Trier University of Applied Sciences) contributed to the highly successful event series ‘Green Heat for Villages and Cities’ organised by the Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V., FNR) with

The extremely fruitful collaboration between IfaS and Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering) on the Transylvanian Wood Pasture project has resulted in the publication of another key research article in People and Nature as a scientific reference for the entire project (funded by the DBU Foundation): link to the article

With its innovative project ‘Agroforestry for the Heat Transition,’ Wurzener Land-Werke GmbH was among the finalists for the prestigious STADTWERKE AWARD 2025. The project is the result of close cooperation between many stakeholders: from the Agrargenossenschaft Böhlitz e. G. agricultural cooperative, which made the agricultural land available, to EU funding through the EU LIFE project

From 17 to 18 September 2025, the 10th Agroforestry Systems Forum of the German Association for Agroforestry (Deutscher Fachverband für Agroforstwirtschaft, DeFAF e.V.) took place at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. The Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) was prominently represented with its AFaktive and AGROfloW projects and its participation in the MODEMA project,

With 14,000 members, the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e. V., DWA) is the largest association in this field in Europe. In addition to developing standards for engineering planning, the DWA promotes professional exchange between authorities, engineering firms, municipalities and the scientific community. An important pillar

Last week, the third AFaktive annual partner meeting took place in Holland. The partners met at the premises of the partner Royal Eijkelkamp, a Dutch company producing sensors for the monitoring of the AFaktive agroforestry sites. This very topic was also at the core of the discussions among partners, not only with regard to the

The next video of the series on agroforestry is now available on the LUCA_IfaS YouTube channel. At the Lerchenhof in Jesewitz, farmer and beekeeper Robert Künne explains how agriculture and nature conservation work together on his farm.His agroforestry system combines healthy food production with valuable, energy-producing, and fruit-bearing trees. These are intended not only to

On 25th June, IfaS Head of Department Frank Wagener gave a presentation at the conference ‘Natural Climate Protection in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate’ at the Environmental Campus. Around 120 participants gathered under the motto ‘Together for natural climate protection’. Experts from local government, science, politics and schools took the opportunity to discuss local approaches to restoring