On 17th and 18th March 2025, a new agroforestry system was planted as a demonstration site at the Lerchenhof farm in Jesewitz (Saxony, Germany). This is part of the AFaktive sibling project AGROfloW. In beautiful sunshine, the LIGNOVIS team, together with organic farmer Robert Künne and parts of the AGROfloW project team (IfaS), planted 3,650 […]

In the week of 24th March 2025, Saxony’s largest agroforestry system was planted on 77 hectares of arable land on the border of the municipalities of Thallwitz & Lossatal in the district of Leipzig on the land of Agrargenossenschaft e.G. Böhlitz. This was part of the AFaktive sibling project AGROfloW. Representatives of the Saxon State

Joint call for better framework conditions for agroforestry Agroforestry Now! (Agroforst Jetzt!) is an initiative to improve the framework conditions for agroforestry in Germany. It is a temporary coming together of various organisations to give agroforestry a new impulse. The initiative is coordinated by the non-profit organisation ProjectTogether and brings together professional associations, science and

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