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

The AFaktive partner Piet Rombouts is an environmental agriculturalist with a specialisation in agroecological farming. His role in the initiatives he accompanies is focused on how to involve farmers in the process (bottom-up). “I think that the farmer’s situation and their farm management have to be the starting point of this transition.”In AFaktive, he is

Nature and all the physical laws governing it are too complex to fully grasp, so scientists rely on so called models that simplify reality while staying as accurate as possible. These models focus on key elements, helping study and predict without needing to account for every detail. Models are being used in AFaktive to understand

The AFaktive pilot sites are each accompanied by a local project partner. The Association for the promotion of agroforestry in Wallonia and Brussels (AWAF) holds a unique position within the AFaktive consortium as the sole Association for Agroforestry and the only Walloon partner. Though small in number, its expertise is vast. Recently, AWAF has been