Policy Briefing #1. Agroforestry and the Green Deal

Policy Briefing #1 (v4) slightly updates the EURAF Agroforestry Typology.  EURAF recommends that the eight agroforestry practices used on agricultural land should be identified as land uses in the Land Parcel Identification Systems (LPIS) systems of Member States: 1) wood-pasture, 2) alley-cropping, 3) alley-coppice, 4) food-forests, 5) orchard-cropping, 6) orchard-grazing, 7) agro-silvo-pasture, 8) woody-landscape-features.  Forest-grazing and food-forests can also be identified on forest land, but they are likely to be temporary and are not permanent land-uses.  This was the first in a series of Briefings about agroforestry policy in the European Union, its Member States, and other European countries. It gave an overview of the European Green deal documents published in 2019 and 2020, and the mentions given to agroforestry. See euraf.net for later briefings.