About EURAF
The European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) aims at promoting the use of trees on farms as well as any kind of silvopastoralism throughout the different environmental regions of Europe. EURAF has more than 600 members from 23 different European countries.
EURAF’s aim to promote the adoption of agroforestry practices across Europe by:
- Any communication means, including lobbying for agroforestry adapted policies at the European scale.
- Organizing a bi-annual conference.
- Sending an electronic newsletter to all members.
- Managing a dedicated website, with functionalities to share information, scientific results and policy issues on agroforestry.
- Achieving specific agreements with national and international agroforestry societies or other related societies for the exchange of information and the organization of joint congresses, symposiums and seminars.
- Meeting monthly to delineate actions to target awareness of agroforestry systems mainly at policy level.
- Promoting events and participate in research projects providing networking throughout Europe.
More information: https://euraf.net/
AGROFORESTRY ASSOCIATIONS in CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech Association for Agroforestry (CSAL) was formally established in 2014 The main objective of the organization is the promotion of agroforestry in the Czech Republic. Currently it has more than 70 members including people from academic and research organizations (focusing on agriculture and rural development) but also farmers. CSAL is very active in international level and work actively on networking in Europe and transfer of the ideas into the Czech environment. CSAL is the only NGO with the main objective to actively promote agroforestry in Czech Republic.
The main activities of CSAL:
- CSAL firstly focus on building awareness among broad range of stakeholders working in rural environment about positive impacts of different types of agroforestry systems on their production and environmental services.
- CSAL specially focus on promotion and education of farmers, land owners or people working on farms to established and implement agroforestry systems on their landholding (e.g. creating guidelines for good management of several types of agroforestry systems).
- Third specific aim is to help create legal regulations related to agroforestry in order to break legislative barriers of growing trees on agriculture land, e.g. drafting of definitions, principles, framework for agroforestry in the Czech Republic and the development of strategic documents related to agroforestry.
- Fourth aim is to promote research in agroforestry in Czech environment, by networking the cooperation with research organizations, schools and farmers. CSAL also officially serve as coordinator of EURAF activities.
Up to now the CSAL prepared several seminars and workshop for farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture and excursions that enables the farmer-to-farmer transfer of agroforestry technologies. The members prepared several papers explaining the concept of agroforestry that were published in journals focused on farming. CSAL cooperate with Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of the Environment on preparation of legislative and strategic documents focusing on agroforestry. CSAL is also member of the team of ERASMUS+ project named Agroforestry Systems: The Opportunity for European Landscape and Agriculture (AGFOSY). Members of CSLA are also actively involved in the national project Agroforestry – potential for regional development and sustainable rural landscape financed by the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic.