Database of agroforestry system descriptions. Milestone Report 28 (6.3) for EU FP7 Research Project

Research ProjectThis report collates information regarding the systems to be addressed during the modelling tasks of the AGFORWARD project. The data focuses on systems description, site characteristics, management and technical options to create the scenario umbrella for the forthcoming modelling activities in work-package 6. The report includes a wide variety of traditional and innovative agroforestry systems across Europe. The number of innovative systems highlights the potential for agroforestry and the role of modelling to predict the outputs of products and services. For some systems, data is missing and this this is being addressed through the on-going work of the stakeholder groups. In the first year of the AGFORWARD project, a total of 54 agroforestry systems were described (11 from WP2, 15 from WP3, 13 from WP4, and 15 from WP5). In this report, 27 of the systems are described in detail in the form of factsheets (five from WP2, eight from WP3, eight from WP4, and six from WP5). The inclusion of a ‘’Hypothetical modelling combinations’’ section on the factsheets helps to define, together with the results from Milestone 27 (Palma et al. 2015), the modelling scenarios that are going to be explored. These scenarios include current management practices, innovative techniques, and new tree/crop/animals combinationsN/