RT Journal Article
T1 Global and European policies to foster agricultural sustainability: agroforestry
A1 Santiago Freijanes, José Javier
A1 Mosquera Losada, María Rosa
A1 Rois Díaz, Mercedes
A1 Ferreiro Domínguez, Nuria
A1 Pantera, Anastasia
A1 Aldrey Vázquez, José Antonio
A1 Rigueiro Rodríguez, Antonio
K1 CAP
K1 Innovation
K1 United Nations
K1 Biodiversity
K1 Ecointensification
AB Agroforestry is a sustainable land management system recognized worldwide but not implemented in a extensive form in temperate and developed countries. Agroforestry has been promoted in the last decades at global level as it provides more efficient and sustainable farming systems. This review aims at summarizing the main research findings explaining why agroforestry is a sustainable land management that fulfils and is affected by different Global, Pan-European and European policies as well as how innovation is currently fostered in Europe, therefore linking research, policy and innovation. This review specially targets researchers and policy makers working in integrated land systems. There is a global and European recognition of the role that agroforestry can play to provide products but also to deliver highly important ecosystem services. However, the promotion of agroforestry practices at European level is still not well addressed by the Common Agricultural Policy. The clear identification of agroforestry practices, the link of management plans to establish agroforestry pursuing a final eligible tree density for the Pillar I payments should be addressed as initial steps to foster agroforestry in Europe. There is a lack of knowledge transfer that promotes agroforestry at field level, which should be approached by using stakeholder integration within the policy development as it is currently done by the EIP-Agri.
PB Springer
SN 1572-9680
SN 10.1007/s10457-018-0215-9
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41230
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41230
LA eng
NO Santiago-Freijanes, J.J., Mosquera-Losada, M.R., Rois-Díaz, M. et al. Global and European policies to foster agricultural sustainability: agroforestry. Agroforest Syst 95, 775–790 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-018-0215-9
NO This work was funded through the AGFORWARD (www.agforward.eu) project from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement no 613520, the AFINET (www.afinet.eu) project from the European Union´s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no 727872 and the Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (“Programa de axudas á etapa posdoutoral DOG nº122, 29/06/2016 p.27443, exp: ED481B 2016/0710”)). The views and opinions expressed in this article are purely those of the writers and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
DS Minerva
RD 30 abr 2026