Save the date: 15th of October 2024!
How can agroforestry or forest agriculture respond to the major challenges we face? What do we know about carbon sequestration, biodiversity, microclimate, yields and other effects of agroforestry? In what ways do trees in the field bring added value, pleasure and satisfaction? How does the Consortium Agroforestry Flanders offer support and facilitate knowledge exchange? What are the next steps and who will take them?
Where do we want to be within a good 10 years?
We would like to discuss these questions and more at the Agroforestry Event 2024: ‘Farming with trees: the road to 2035’. (please note that this event is in Dutch)
Programme:
- Time: 9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
- Plenary sessions including a keynote delivered by Mark Shepard, agroforestry ambassadors in the picture and an overview of the results of the ‘Agroforestry Flanders’ operation.
- Parallel workshops on decision support tools for agroforestry actors, learning networks, policy and regulation, business models, future research, ...
- Agroforestry market and lunch
- Agroforestry ambassadors in the spotlight
- Optional visit to the experimental site at ILVO
Afterwards, at 17h15, there will be the opportunity to attend the Belgian premiere of the documentary ‘Bomen op mijn land (trees on my land)’, at the same location. The Dutch Ambassady, the documentary filmmaker (Joris Van der Kamp) and one of the farmers from the film (Diderik Clarebout - De Woudezel) will also be present and testify briefly.
Attention: you need to register separately for the workshops:
- Choose your workshop for the morning session here.
- Choose your workshop session for the afternoon here.
Are you yourself active around agroforestry? Do you have something to offer? Or maybe you are exploring an innovative concept? Are you a tree grower, consultant, do you sell tree protection, are you involved in processing products, are you a contractor specialised in planting and/or maintaining agroforestry systems, ...? Then you can register for a spot at the agroforestry info market and/or a pitch on stage
Which agroforestry ambassador do you think should definitely be put in the spotlight? Let us know.
Sign up here (please note that you need to understand the Dutch language well to fully experience this event)
Schedule
| Reception & Coffee | |
| Welcome and introduction - Bert Reubens, coordinator of Consortium Agroforestry Flanders | |
| Keynote speech - Mark Shepard, New Forest Farm Wisconsin | |
| At a glance through our agroforestry research in Flanders | |
| Flemish agroforestry: on the map and in the room | |
| Break | |
| Parallel workshops - Round 1 | |
| Network lunch & Agroforestry market | |
| Parallel workshops - Round 1 | |
| Break | |
| Agroforestry ambassadors in the spotlight | |
| Panel discussion - Farming with trees: the road to 2035 | |
| Closing remarks | |
| Networking | |
| Belgian premiere of the documentary ''Trees on my land'' - Joris van der Kamp, Future Farmer Film Productions |