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

Wood-pastures are very old, highly biodiverse and unique agricultural utilisation systems that were widespread throughout Europe for hundreds of years. In the course of agricultural intensification (inter alia merging of areas to suit farming machinery, removal of woody plants from farming areas, use of fertilisers and other chemicals), these cultures disappeared in almost all of

A meeting of the AGROfloW project consortium took place on 27th November 2024. The teams of the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (Trier University of Applied Sciences), of the Saarland University of Applied Sciences (htw saar) and Hydrotec GmbH met at the university campus in Saarbrücken. The goal of the meeting was to finalise

On the 15th of October 2024, the event “Farming with Trees: the road to 2035” took place at ILVO. It was the highlight of ten years of strong collaboration among several Flemish partners engaging in agroforestry (the “Consortium Agroforestry Flanders”) and activities performed in a range of projects. A nice example of how partnerships and