Utilising local resources and implementing the energy transition in your municipality: The Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe, FNR) has now published the guide ‘Renewable Energy Municipalities – Guidelines for a sustainable energy supply in villages and towns’ on this highly topical subject (only in German). The comprehensive guide was compiled by the Institute […]

The document outlines five key co-designed policy recommendations for the EU to maximise the implementation of agroforestry as part of its objective to secure a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable food system that meets the needs of present and future generations. Five key policy recommendations: 1) The classification of agroforestry land should be consistent across

The kick-off event for the MODEMA Model and Demonstration Network for Agroforestry in Germany (funding code: 2222NR061) took place in Weimar on 22nd October 2024. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe, FNR). It is centrally coordinated by DeFaF e.V.

From the 24th to the 27th of June, the AFaktive second annual partner meeting took place in Rumbeke, Western Flanders, Belgium. The institute for agricultural research INAGRO hosted the meeting and was an inspiring backdrop for the event. Under the blessing of sunny and warm weather, the participants were very productive in discussing the project

The Saarland Water Days took place at the HTW Saar from 9th-11th April 2024. The Water Days were organised by the Water Research Group. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alpaslan Yörük and his team, who are also partners in AFaktive, offered an extensive programme. After the opening by the President of the university, Saarland Environment Minister Petra Berg

The AFaktive partner AWAF (Association for the promotion of agroforestry in Wallonia and Brussels) organised on the 8th April the first leg of an intense week of field visits and conferences on the theme of regenerative hydrology, i.e. the science of regenerating water cycles through land-use planning (https://hydrologieregenerative.be/). On this occasion, AWAF welcomed Samuel Bonvoisin

On Tuesday, 26th of March a group of partners from the AFaktive consortium met to visit different farms and fields with agroforestry systems in the Belgian regions of Flanders and Wallonia. Goal of the excursion was to get a common impression of the systems and to select suitable sites for measurements to quantify the effects

Project partners visit agroforestry project sites On the 22nd of January, two of the AFaktive project partners – Instituut voor Landbouw, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek (ILVO) and Association pour la promotion de l’agroforesterie en Wallonie (AWAF) – together with some of their associated partners – Department of Geography of the Ghent University, Université libre de Bruxelles,

At the end of November, IfaS welcomed the partners of the AFaktive project for the kick-off event at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld Various agroforestry enthusiasts from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have joined to form a consortium and are receiving EU funding from the LIFE programme. The five-year project “AFaktive – Agroforestry as a key