Policy advice | Project report Agroforestry in Flanders: roadmap 2.0 to a stimulating environment

Agroforestry is a cultivation system with considerable potential to respond to a number of agricultural and societal challenges in Flanders and Europe.

The transformative potential of agroforestry is great, but can only be realized if there is a willingness to embed these innovative practices in our agrifood system. Many actors play a guiding role in this and action needs to be taken simultaneously on several fronts.

This 'roadmap' aims to offer a structured framework and inspiration to this end. We do this on the basis of five concrete development paths:

(1) the scientific and technological path,
(2) the economic path,
(3) the policy path,
(4) the education path and
(5) the social path.

For each of these paths, we identify current bottlenecks and opportunities, paint the picture of agroforestry in 2035, and suggest priority actions to stimulate agroforestry in Flanders (Belgium).

This roadmap shows that creating a supportive environment for agroforestry goes beyond making subsidies available to farmers. A systemic approach, focusing on the farmers and activating all actors in the (circular) food system, is needed.

This requires adjustments in policy, education, research and the agri-food chain.

This roadmap can be read and used as a stepping stone in a trajectory around agroforestry, but also as a door opener for other forms of pioneering, agroecological agriculture.

Volledige Roadmap 2.0

Roadmap 2.0 Naar een stimulerende omgeving voor agroforestry in Vlaanderen