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

The new project will promote agroforestry systems as a tool for improving water management Under the leadership of the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), the EU LIFE project AFaktive, “Agroforestry as a Key to improve Water Management & Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events”, started on 1st October 2023. The AFaktive project develops, tests