PARTNERS
Polish Agroforestry Association (OSA) based in Puławy is currently the main Polish unit engaged in agroforestry activities. People involved in OSA are the core of several research platforms (e.g. AFINET RAIN group; SustainFARM stakeholders platform). Established in 2015, OSA is gathering farmers from different parts of the country, agronomists, foresters and business sector. The association is organizing workshops for researchers and farmers and helps farmers to establish agroforestry systems. OSA is a member of Polish Network for Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas with which is collaborating including dissemination of agroforestry innovations and agroecological knowledge through national channels of social media. OSA is cooperating closely with Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – State Research Institute (IUNG-PIB) supervising by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Organic Agriculture Forum and Association of Cattle Producers in Małopolskie region (in the Carpathians) comprising silvopastoral farmers. The organization is an associated member of Polish EIP Operational Group “Agroforestry in the Zielava Valley”. Apart from that, the association cooperates with Agricultural Advisory Centre at Brwinów, a public agricultural extension service in terms of organizing workshops for farmers and advisors. Additionally, representatives of administrative districts, landscape park planting mid-field shelterbelts, and of several NGOs dealing with improving agricultural biodiversity (traditional orchards, mid-field trees, insects and birds protection) in Poland are involved in the network.
Role in the project: T.6.4 lead
Trakia University – Stara Zagora is an autonomous state institution. It was established in 1995. The University provides high quality education for professional careers in the field of human and veterinary medicine, agriculture, ecology and environmental protection, engineering and technology, pedagogy, and economics. Over 8,500 students from Bulgaria and the world are educated by nearly 600 highly qualified lecturers, and by guest lectures, in 72 bachelor’s and master’s programs. A course in agroforestry is taught to the students of the Faculty of Agriculture.
Role in the project: Involved in T.2.2., 3.1, 3.2, 4.2
Role in the project: Actively involved in WP2, WP5 and T. 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.4, 4.5
FarmTree BV that is based in Wageningen, The Netherlands has developed the FarmTree® Tool projecting the performance of agro- systems. The tool generates scenarios’ projections in graphs and time series for a variety of economic, social and environmental indicators. FarmTree Tool is available online so users can design and analyse the performance of the agro-plots themselves. In the Reforest project FarmTree is one of the modelling tools with a specific task to quantify and project performance of existing Agroforestry systems. FarmTree will define each species growing in the selected agroforestry systems, using field data and will generate performance projections of these systems. Projections come out in variety of indicators e.g. sequestered carbon, economic costs and benefits, biodiversity levels.
Role in the project: Actively involved in T.2.2, 2.3, 3.6