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Politicas agroforestales en España: Agroforestry Policies in Spain
EURAF: Informe de Politica #44 (v3), impulsado por LIFE AgroForAdapt actualiza una revisión previa de las políticas relacionadas con los sistemas agroforestales en el Plan Estratégico de la PAC española. Esta nueva versión añade secciones sobre políticas medioambientales más allá de la PAC, incluyendo el Marco de Certificación de Absorciones de […]
Initial approach to monitoring reporting and verification (MRV) of agroforestry carbon farming in the EU
Policy Briefing #20 (v5) updates the previous version (25.8.25) in response to the DGCLIMA public consultation on the draft Carbon Farming Delegated Act (22.1.26 – 19.2.26). Comments are provided on definitions, scope, baselines, additionality, sustainability, monitoring tools, permanence, and geospatial coordinates of agroforestry. A standard typology of 8 agroforestry and […]
Agroforestry & the draft regulations on Forest Reproductive Material and New Genomic Techniques
Policy Briefing #30-v3 updates our previous recommendations on the wording of the draft EU Forest Reproductive Material (FRM) Regulation. It discusses the agreed opinion of Parliament and Council before the start of Trialogue discussions this autumn with the Commission. Parliament´s amendments clarify that the FMR should apply agroforestry (as […]
Agroforestry, carbon farming and the sustainable use of water resources
Policy Briefing 64-v1 explores the interaction between agroforestry and the EU´s sustainability and water policy resilience goals. It emphasizes the role of a mosaic tree-cover in sustainable water management, and the importance of agricultural trees in enhancing soil water infiltration, reducing runoff on slopes, and increasing water quantity in streams. […]
Initial approach to monitoring reporting and verification (MRV) of agroforestry carbon farming in the EU
Initial approach to monitoring reporting and verification (MRV) of agroforestry carbon farming in the EUPolicy Briefing #20 (v4) Policy Briefing #20 (v4) is much shortened from version 3 (17.9.24) and responds to the draft carbon farming MRV methodologies made available in April/May 2025 to members of the Carbon Removals Expert […]
Availability and use of IACS geospatial data in the EU
Policy Briefing #68 (v1) gives approaches to the quantification of agroforestry and woody landscape features in the EU, based upon open access to Member States’ Geospatial Aid Application (GSAA) and Land Parcel Information System (LPIS) data – with harmonised coding (Lawson, Muraru & Kay 2024) of crops, land uses and environmental designations. This […]
Agroforestry and the EU Nature Restoration Regulation
EURAF’s briefing #18 (v5) adds (p6 onwards) information on the Commission Notice providing “Guidance on a framework for developing methodologies to monitor high-diversity landscape features pursuant to Article 14(7) of the Nature Restoration Regulation”. We conclude that this 20-page note could have been avoided if EURAF’s advice had been followed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All published briefings
#01 Agroforestry and the Green Deal
#02 Agroforestry in the EU Forest Strategy
#03 Agroforestry and CAP Direct Payments
#04 Agroforestry and enhanced conditionality
#05 Agroforestry and ecoschemes
#06 Agroforestry and Pillar II of the new CAP
#07 Agroforestry and CAP monitoring
#08 History and potential contribution of agroforestry carbon farming in the EU
#09 England clarifies its agroforestry basic payment rules
#10 EURAF reacts to the Commission’s advice on CAP SPs
#11 EU agroforestry policy: an overview
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