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

On January 15, 2025, the IfaS AGROfloW project team met with farmer Robert Künne in Jesewitz in the district of North Saxony to prepare for the upcoming implementation of a new demonstration site.The Lerchenhof is an important result of the Saxon agroforestry campaign, which also advises and supports other farms on the topic of agroforestry

In December 2024, the implementation phase within the AFaktive project officially started. Since then, three AFaktive sites have been equipped with sensors. Two of them are so-called pioneer sites, i.e. Heesakkers farm in the Netherlands (pictures below), and the experimental filed of one of the project partners, the Belgian institute for agricultural research, Inagro. Within

Date: 5th February 2025 | 10:00 – 12:00 | Online (Webex)  Organiser: German Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) – Fachagentur nachwachsende Rohstoffe (FNR)  Free registration & programme: HERE Event in German. In cooperation with the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), the FNR has published the guidebook ‘Renewable Energy Manicipalities- Guidelines for a sustainable

The AFaktive Partner Inagro – a large institute for agriculture research in the Flanders – has launched the series “Digging Deeper”. In this format, the colleagues report on the developments and results of Inagro’s own agroforestry plot – such as for example the ones within the framework of the AFaktive project. In the latest edition,

The AFaktive project implementation officially started in Voeren, Belgium. On the AFaktive pilot site, swales were installed. Swales are shallow wide channels covered in vegetation that have different functions for water management, from erosion control and water filtration, to flood protection – especially thanks to slow water infiltration. Agroforestry systems have similar water management functions