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    Adoption des pratiques agroforestières en France, quelles perspectives ?

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    Equipe AMPLUS : Analyse et Modélisation du champ cultivé PLUrispécifiqueAdoption des pratiques agroforestières en France, quelles perspectives

    Creating agroforestry innovation and best practice leaflets

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    A key output of the EU FP7 project AGFORWARD was a series of 46 agroforestry innovation and 10 agroforestry best practice leaflets for European farmers and other stakeholders. This paper describes the process of over 80 people working together to create the leaflets and the overall result

    Agroforestry in Europe. Practice, research and policy

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    Agroforestry in Europe: Practice, Research and Policy Content 1. The practice of agroforestry in Europe 2.Some research from the AGFORWARD project 3.Some important policy issuesN/

    Reconsidering the role of trees in agriculture - The case of agroforestry

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    With the modernisation of agriculture, trees were gradually taken out of development policies. In this respect, the way trees are handled in various regulations is enlightening. Through the testimony of three tree planter farmers recorded for the purposes of a recent documentary, it is soon apparent that, at 5, 15 or 30 years interval, they came up against similar reluctance and similar problems in obtaining support and recognition of their agroforestry projects as being eligible. These farmers are asked to produce more efficiently, and sometimes to maintain natural elements, at the risk that they may be penalised — which seems contradictory — particularly in view of the constraints and sometimes disadvantages that trees may impose on overall farm management. For trees to be part of “sustainable development” requires some upfront clarification of regulations and legal provisions. In this respect a number of promising developments have occurred. Additionally, projects must be designed from a more positive, or even participative, angle between players in the rural environment so as to break down the isolation of farmers when contemplating land management decisions.Avec la modernisation de l’agriculture, l’arbre a été peu à peu écarté des politiques de développement. Et sa prise en considération dans les différentes réglementations est révélatrice. Au travers de trois témoignages d’agriculteurs planteurs d’arbres recueillis pour les besoins d’un documentaire récent, on s’aperçoit rapidement qu’ils ont connu, à 5, 15 ou 30 années d’intervalle, les mêmes réticences, les mêmes problèmes dans l’accompagnement et l’éligibilité de leurs projets agroforestiers. On demande aux mêmes agriculteurs de produire mieux, voire de maintenir les éléments naturels, au risque d’être pénalisés, ce qui semble paradoxal, surtout quand on voit les contraintes voire les pénalités que les arbres représentent pour la gestion de l’exploitation. Imaginer l’arbre au service du “développement durable” demande donc des clarifications réglementaires et juridiques avant toute autre chose. De ce côté, la situation évolue dans le bon sens, mais cela demande aussi de concevoir les projets sous un angle plus positif, voire participatif entre les acteurs du monde rural, afin de décloisonner l’isolement des agriculteurs dans la gestion des territoires

    Agroforesterie, des arbres et des cultures

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    Contact: [email protected] audienceDes arbres dans nos parcelles cultivĂ©es ? Pourquoi pas ! Depuis un siècle, ils ont Ă©tĂ© systĂ©matiquement retirĂ©s des parcelles agricoles. Pourtant, de plus en plus, on Ă©tudie leur valeur ajoutĂ©e en matière : de sols et pour les diffĂ©rentes productions vĂ©gĂ©tales, de biodiversitĂ©, de protection de l'environnement, de qualitĂ© de l'eau (bilan hydrique). Les auteurs, dans une première partie, exposent les donnĂ©es pour comprendre le fonctionnement d'une parcelle agroforestière. Ils donnent, dans une seconde partie, des outils pratiques pour rĂ©ussir un projet agroforestier : choix des parcelles, choix des arbres techniques de plantations et de rĂ©colte des arbres mise en place de cultures intermĂ©diaires. Ils vous permettent Ă©galement d'en Ă©tudier la faisabilitĂ© sur les plans budgĂ©taire et juridique. L'agriculture est plurielle, l'agroforesterie aussi. Ce guide pratique vous permettra d'inventer la vĂ´tre

    Agroforestry for reducing nitrogen pollution: from research to the field

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    International audienceNitrate is a significant water pollutant in a large part of French agricultural soils. It becomes a serious problem because of the high cost of water depuration it represents to the communities. Many studies have demonstrated the importance of silvo-arable systems in nitrate removal from non-point sources. From these results, first collection installations have been established in France, in different provinces, especially in zones of water collection. But developing a collective project requires a certain methodology, sensitizing the farmers and communities to setting up each project. Thus agroforestry like other innovations shouldn’t be considered as technical goal but above all as a socio-technical goal. To support the project, we have to take into account the interactions between technical practices and professional groups, resulting in a certain dynamic of information and norms of conceiving. The production and sharing of knowledge are one of the keys to success. In our example, near the town of Béziers, in the south of France, a community decided to support agroforestry for protecting ground water. After the first phase feasibility study, identification of adoption factors and sensitizing farmers and all the rural actors of the target zone, almost one third of the farmers decided to set up some silvo-arable project
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