ReForest – Agroforstwirtschaft an die Spitze der landwirtschaftlichen Nachhaltigkeit in multifunktionalen Landschaften in Europa – Projektüberblick unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle des DeFAF e.V.
Creators: name: Hübner, Rico
name: Schwabe, Julian
name: Bickler, Charlotte
name: Cooper, Julia
name: Hajdukovic, Ivan
name: Ghaley, Bhim Bahadur
name: Luedeling, Eike
name: Smith, Laurence
name: Van Colen, Willem
name: Borek, Robert
name: Atanasova, Stefka
name: Ivanova, Galina
name: Vityi, Andrea
name: Van Schoubroeck, Frank
name: Májová, Eva
name: Lukáč, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: agroforestry
innovation
CAP

description: The aim of the Horizon Europe-funded research project "ReForest - Agroforestry at the forefront of farming sustainability in multifunctional landscapes in Europe", which started on 1 July 2022, is to promote innovation, knowledge exchange and, in particular, to provide solutions to enable farmers to achieve the goals of food production, climate protection and biodiversity through agroforestry methods. Agroforestry, as a promising form of land use in all three aspects, should enable farmers to continue producing food while not only meeting but even exceeding ecological requirements. As a basic research approach, the ReForest project uses a co-creation and multi-actor approach to balance agroforestry systems (AFS) between agricultural productivity, socio-economic viability and sustainable management in a context-specific way. The aim is to maximise the use of existing experiences and data, build on the foundations laid by previous projects and provide a platform for stakeholder engagement to achieve knowledge sharing, joint learning and innovation ("Living Lab" approach: Real-Labor). The ReForest project is primarily dedicated to improving knowledge exchange and transfer, integrating or enabling novel financing approaches as a new business model in agriculture, for example based on carbon sequestration potential or achieving biodiversity target indicators. The calculation of possibilities and limits in the provision of targeted agricultural policy interventions to overcome obstacles to the increased establishment of agroforestry in Europe, complete the work tasks. ReForest is a four-year Horizon Europe project that brings together 14 institutions from 10 European countries in the field of agroforestry. The project coordinator is the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Department of Forestry. The main fields of action of DeFAF e.V. are the provision of information on agroforestry, advance consultation, networking activities between practitioners, the scientific community and policy-makers, including policy-related research. Collaboration will take place in the implementation of the science-practice partnership developed in Work Package 1 (WP1) into a coherent, overarching set of tools that will enable farmers and other stakeholders to design AFS and consequently make informed management decisions in their local context (T.2.1, 2.2, 2.3). Other activities include co-developing a financial model specifically for OFSPs and designing effective policy support (T5.2), jointly developing a conceptual benchmark model (T6.1), integrating impact models and developing a dynamic management tool (T6.2), and mapping institutional barriers (T6.3).