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An agroforestry carbon farming starter pack

A proposal from EURAF for all Member States to adopt a simple “starter pack” of agricultural tree-planting measures to “kick start” the four phases of agroforestry carbon farming: i) an ecoscheme to design planting and undertake baseline soil measurements in yr 0; ii) tree planting and protection investment in year […]

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Policy Briefing #66. Agroforestry for carbon farming certification: how to demonstrate co-benefits for biodiversity and ecosystems?

Policy Briefing 66 (v1) describes the clear benefits which agroforestry systems have for biodiversity and the protection of ecosystems. But how can these be demonstrated in carbon farming projects, without a monitoring complexity and timescale which makes the projects uneconomic? Biodiversity was the only one of the six “sustainability” areas […]

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EURAF’s Comment on the Commission´s “Vision for Agriculture and Food”

EURAF is deeply disappointed that the Vision for Agriculture and Food (19.2.2025 COM(2025) 75 final) does not mention agricultural trees or agroforestry. This demonstrates that some policymakers continue to view agriculture and forestry in separate siloes, with agricultural trees falling through the gap between them.  Extensive research, coupled with the […]

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Policy Briefing #28. Agroforestry and the Sustainable Finance Initiative

EURAF Policy Briefing #28 v3 responds to the Commission’s latest report on the Sustainable Finance Initiative (aka the Taxonomy Regulation) and forms EURAF´s submission to a consultation which closes on 5th February 2025.  Agriculture was included in the original recommendations (2022) of the “Platform for Sustainable Finance”, but was not […]

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Policy Briefing #01. 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, […]

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Agricultural trees for resilient landscapes: a vision for European agroforestry

The European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) aims to promote the use of trees on farms throughout Europe. We welcome publication of the Strategic Dialogue for the Future of Agriculture, and the fact that agroforestry is identified as a key tool for sustainable food systems (EURAF Post 4.9.24). Europe needs an emergency, […]

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Policy Briefing #15 (v5) Defining forests and agroforests in the EU

Policy Briefing #15 (v5) welcomes the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), noting that it excludes current areas of agriculture and agroforestry. However the EUDR Guidelines place too much faith in the ability of satellite data to distinguish forests from agriculture.  We therefore stress the importance of land-use and cadastral registers, and […]

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Policy Briefing #20. Initial approach to monitoring reporting and verification (MRV) of agroforestry carbon farming in the EU.

Policy Briefing #20 (v3) responds to the provisionally approved text of the Carbon Removals Certification Framework (CRCF). Delegated and Implementing Acts will now be produced by the Commission, aiming to implement “permanent carbon removals”, “removals in harvested products” and “carbon-farming”. This Briefing gives advice on how the Delegated Act on […]