Europe’s farms face floods, droughts & heat. 🌧️🌡️ What if trees were part of the solution? 🌳 #Agroforestry reconnects farming with nature—boosting resilience and balance. 🚜🌿 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmor... #ClimateAdaptation #FarmResilience #RegenerativeAgriculture #LandUse #watermanagement

🌳 New Research - Applying the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Eastern European wood-pastures #Transylvania ➡️ buff.ly/PsVxzGl

🌳 Ever wondered how culture and nature evolve together? Our latest paper in People and Nature explores Eastern Europe’s ancient wood pastures—their ecology, heritage & resilience. A milestone from the IfaS & Babeș-Bolyai team of the Transylvanian Wood Pasture project 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

🤝 IfaS & FITT met yesterday at the HTW Saar to coordinate #AFaktive & #AGROfloW. Focus: #agroforestry sites, sensor monitoring & data for rainfall simulations. Goal: help municipalities plan for extreme weather events prevention. 🌳💧

💧Handbook by @ecologic.eu on water retention highlights #agriculture as key for #climateadaptation 🌱 Among the measures: #agroforestry — trees that cool, slow wind, store carbon, support soil health & create new value chains 🌳 Read more below ⬇️ #waterretention #soil

🌳The #AFaktive, #AGROfloW & #MODEMA teams joined the 10th Agroforestry Systems Forum in Gießen, sharing insights on #modelling & #water balance. MODEMA presented first results on time requirements for key processes — paving the way for economic assessments🌿 afaktive.stoffstrom.org/en/2025/10/1...

💧 New article in the DWA magazine highlights how #agroforestry improves water retention & resilience. 🌳 Based on #AFaktive & #AGROfloW results, with HTW Saar & IfaS contributing to new DWA work on water management in agriculture. Read full article in German here: tinyurl.com/5f87nr9w

🌾 The #AFaktive project joined the Euroregional Forum 2025 workshop on #regenerativeagriculture, presenting #agroforestry as a key #climateadaptation tool for better #watermanagement and resilient landscapes. 🌳💧 More info: www.drielandenpark.info

👏 Congrats to Wurzener Landwerke GmbH for being nominated for the German Stadtwerke Award 2025! Their project “Agroforestry for the Heat Transition” shows how local ideas & sustainable farming can drive a climate-friendly heat supply. 🌳🔥 #ZENAPA Watch video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J21...

🎥 See agroforestry in action! Willem Van Colen from Inagro’s Living Lab in 🇧🇪 answers: 🌳 What are the benefits? 🌳 How were species chosen? 🌳 What’s next? ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMiw... More: agroreforest.eu/living-labs #Agroforestry #ReForest #Inagro #Sustainability #FarmTree

🌱 #Webinar: FarmTree Advantage 🗓️ Oct 23, 2025 | ⏰ 13:00–14:00 CET Discover how FarmTree helps build stronger #agroforestry systems, value chains & livelihoods. 🔗 Register: agroreforest.eu/event/farmtr... #Agroforestry #ReForest #FarmTree #Agroecology #Webinar #EUFarming #ClimateAction

🌳 On 20th-21st September, #AFaktive partner ILVO (Institute of Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Research ) participated in the #Werktuigendagen (agricultural machinery days) in Oudernaarde, Belgium 🚜 They represented AFaktive with their #agroforestry stand ➡️ www.werktuigendagen.be/en/

⛱️🌊 Have you missed the latest #AFaktive #Newsletter because you were on holidays? ☀️🐠 No problem! 👉 Here you can read how the project has been progressing in 2025: afaktive.stoffstrom.org?mailpoet_rou...

🌳The #AFaktive project joined the 10th German #Agroforestry Forum in Gießen organised by DeFAF e.V.🤝 A great chance to exchange on #watermanagement and highlight agroforestry as a tool for #climateadaptation.💧 Poster credits to the Institute for Rural Development Research (IfLS) focusing on #policy

IfaS Beitrag im Sammelband „Mit Energie gestalten!“ (Agrosoziale Gesellschaft) zu nachwachsenden Rohstoffen & #Klimaanpassung. Fokus: #Agroforstsysteme, Mehrnutzung & Synergien. Grundlage: @umweltstiftung.bsky.social-Projekt „Die Energiewende als Chance für ländliche Räume?!“

Last week, the annual #AFaktive partner meeting took place in NL🤝The partnters discussed the #agroforestry sites in Germany, Netherlands & Belgium 🌳 as well as and next steps concerning monitoring #sensors 🔬 #modelling tool 💻 upscaling of agroforestry ↗️ capacity building 🎓 and policy #LIFEprogramme

📢 Check out our latest video in our #agroforestry video series: "New agroforestry system in Saxony: A symbiosis of food production and nature conservation" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJa... 🔔 #Subscribe to our YouTube channel in order not to miss out on the next videos of the series! 🔥

#Wassermanagement ist ein sehr aktuelles Thema, auf das wir am IfaS-Institut über unterschiedliche Agroforstprojekte fokussieren. 🌳💧🌾 #Bäume in Ackerfeldern aber auch auf Wiesen helfen die Landschaft dabei, die extreme Folgen von #Klimawandel wie Dürre und Überflutungen abzumilden. 💪

🌳 Just released on Zenodo #Agroforestry Snapshot Database! ✅ Legal definitions (per country) ✅ Financial incentives & eligibility rules ✅ Links to more resources 🔗 zenodo.org/records/1687... 💡Have funding data from your country? Contact Dr. P.K. Anebagilu to contribute: [email protected]

Inspired by the native oak savannas, we support the growth of more diverse, perennial farming in the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes watersheds. We work to create opportunities for farmers to diversify their incomes and landscapes, raise healthy food, and build resilience through #agroforestry.

📬 #AFaktive partner Inagro has released a new issue of their #newsletter "Digging Deeper" 🌱 🌳 Find out more about the harvest of the cover crop and the maintenance of the walnut trees, tree strips and hedge on Inagro´s own #agroforestry fields 👉 Link to the newsletter: inagro.be/digging-deep...

📢 Our #agroforestry video series continues: "Agriculture of the Future: Trees as Part of the Solution" 📽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGL... 🔔 #Subscribe to our YouTube channel in order not to miss out on the next videos of the series! 🔥 @fnr.de

📢 The third video of the #AFaktive #agroforestry #video series is out: "Trees, Water & Data: Building the Future of Agroforestry" 📽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CJp... 📺🔔 #Subscribe to our YouTube channel in order not to miss out on the next videos of the series! 😉

📢 Check out the second video of our #AFaktive #agroforestry #video series: 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXse... 📺🔔 #Subscribe to our YouTube channel in order not to miss out on the next videos of the series! 😉

📢 The first video of the #AFaktive #agroforestry #video series is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYC... 📲 #Subscribe to our YouTube channel in order not to miss out on the next videos of the series! 😉

📢 The latest issue of the AFaktive newsletter is out now! 📲 🌳 Find out how the project developed in the last six months and read about its agroforestry sites and project monitoring. 🔬 👉 Find the newsletter at the following link: afaktive.stoffstrom.org?mailpoet_rou...

🌱 This spring, the groundworks at the #agroforestry plot of #AFaktive partner Inagro vzw were started. 💪 The past wet winters caused water problems and tree loss among the walnut #trees. It was time for action! 💧 Read more here: inagro.be/digging-deep... (Copyright photos: Inagro)

The Wurzener Land-Werke have been nominated for the STADTWERKE AWARD 2025 with their project “Agroforestry for the Heat Transition” – one of Germany’s six most innovative energy projects! 🎉 💚 We need your vote! 👉 Vote online now: 🔗 www.zfk.de/services/awards/stadtwerke-award 📅 Until July 15

At the end of May, an RBC #flume was installed at one of the #AFaktive sites in Belgium. This device will continuously measure surface #runoff for 4 years in this #agroforeetry system. Scientific objective: to assess the impact of agroforestry on water regulation at the plot level.🌳💧🔬

Training on the manual measurements and installation of further sensors last week at the #agroforestry site Hofgut Neumühle educational and experimental centre for livestock farming. Stay tuned for the results!🌳🌾💧🔬

It seems the media attention on #agroforestry hasn´t halted yet. 📺 The German national and international television news service @tagesschau.bsky.social broadcast last Friday a report on agroforestry featuring the project site Hofgut Neumühle educational and experimental centre for livestock farming

Soil health and the quality and availability of water are interconnected. For example, healthy soil can retain 25% of its volume in water. This means that water availability is impacted by the health of our soils. #SoilAction #WaterAction

The LIFE Programme must continue, urge nearly 70 MEPs! Despite delivering over 6,000 highly successful projects, the EU's only financing tool dedicated to nature & climate initiatives is facing uncertain future. Find out more below & read why LIFE matters 👉 www.wwf.eu/wwf_news/pub...

What are the benefits of #agroforestry for #watermanagement and #waterbalance in #agriculture and in the #landscape? 🌳🌾💧 Figure available in EN 🇬🇧 DE 🇩🇪 NL 🇳🇱 and FR 🇫🇷 More information on afaktive.stoffstrom.org/en/

Exchange of the #AGROfloW and #MODEMA team with the #farm owners participating in the two projects. One #agroforestry system has been recently planted; the other one is more mature and therefore more interesting for measurements (©photos: IfaS) Funding: @fnr.de

#Biodiversity #monitoring at the #AFaktive project site Hofgut Neumühle installed: pitfall traps for insect biodiversity and #audiomoths for #bats and #birds. 🪲🐦🦇The audiomoths recordings are analysed by an AI software to identify species & number. Stay tuned for the results. #agroforestry 🌳🌱

IfaS is participating in the LIFE Platform Meeting on European Forest Restoration in Romania. 🌳 100 experts from 13 countries, representing 33 LIFE, Horizon, & Interreg projects 🌐 From the left: Frank Wagener (IfaS), Marco Onida, Team Leader for Forests DG ENV (@ec.europa.eu) & Jacob Bußmann (IfaS)

On Saxony's largest #agroforestry system, representatives from #agriculture and forestry, science and municipal administration showed how sustainable #landuse works in practice at a field day on 22 May. The event was largely organised by Wurzener Land-Werke GmbH (which holds the photos copyright)

#AFaktive team receives training on #manual #soil measurements by project partner Royal Eijkelkamp at the Inagro-institute in Belgium. #scientificresearch #EULIFEproject

Last week, #AFaktive participated in the celebration at its #agroforestry site De Hofkamer, nominated as “nature-inclusive company”. 🎉🌳The cooperation between @staatsbosbeheer.bsky.social and Hofkamer was signed in the presence of the @limburg.nl, nature organisation, municipalities & other farmers

German TV channel SWR aired yesterday a programme on #agroforestry featuring the Hofgut Neumühle, farmsite (projects #ZENAPA, #AGROfloW and #AFaktive) 🌳🌾 Link: www.ardmediathek.de/video/zur-sa... Report on agroforestry from minute 6:40; report on the Neumühle site from minute 8:46.

Es ist uns bewusst, dass #Agroforstwirtschaft noch umstritten ist. 🌳Das ist der Grund, warum wir #wissensbasiert daran arbeiten, deren Auswirkungen auf den #Wasserhaushalt der Landschaft wissenschaftlich zu messen. 🔬 Folgen Sie uns, um die Projektergebnisse zu erfahren.🌳💧 www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...

We are aware that the topic of #agroforestry is still #controversial. 🌳That is the reason why we work #sciencebased to measure the exact effects of agroforestry on the #waterbalance of the field in which they grow and, ultimately on the #landscape itself. 🔬 Stay tuned for the project results 🌳🌾💧

🌳Milestone of the EU LIFE ZENAPA project. 🎉Together with Hofgut Neumühle, the District Association Palatinate (Bezirksverband Pfalz), and the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park, ZENAPA is demonstrating how #agroforestry systems can promote #biodiversity and contribute to #climateprotection 🌳🌾🌱🐝

The Rhein-Zeitung newspaper wrote an article about the AFaktive project and #agroforestry: www.rhein-zeitung.de/rheinland-pf... The article describes the many advantages for water management and #climateadaptation 🌳💧

Visit of the LIFE monitoring at the project site Hofgut Neumühle educational & experimental centre for livestock farming. IfaS collaborates with this farm on 3 projects, ZENAPA, AGROfloW and AFaktive. Here, new agroforestry systems have been installed. AFaktive will focus on biodiversity monitoring🌳

A new #agroforestry system with 3,082 trees was planted in Rhineland-Palatinate as a multi-utilisation system. This was part of the EU-LIFE project ZENAPA and the result of a cooperation between the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park and the Hofgut Neumühle More: afaktive.stoffstrom.org/en/2025/04/1...

Das IfaS ist auch Teil des Modell- und Demonstrationsnetwerks Agroforstwirtschaft in Deutschland, MODEMA, das vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft und der @fnr.de gefördert wird. Zentrale Koordination erfolgt über den Deutschen Fachverband für Agroforstwirtschaft 🌳🌾💧🌿

Das Biomasse- und Kulturlandschaftsentwicklungsteam des IfaS arbeitet derzeit hauptsächlich an drei Schwesterprojekten mit dem Schwerpunkt #Agroforst für #Wassermanagement 🌳🌾💧 🌳EU LIFE AFaktive afaktive.stoffstrom.org/en/ 🌳FNR AGROfloW agroflow.stoffstrom.org 🌳FNR MODEMA agroforst-info.de/modema/

The biomass and culture landscape development team of IfaS is currently working mainly on three “sibling projects” focusing on #agroforestry for #watermanagement 🌳🌾💧 🌳EU LIFE AFaktive afaktive.stoffstrom.org/en/ 🌳FNR AGROfloW agroflow.stoffstrom.org 🌳FNR MODEMA agroforst-info.de/modema/