The purpose of this report, produced by the DigitAF project, is to provide guidelines for the design of agroforestry business plans relying on branding and certification. It builds substantially on the analysis of two previous DigitAF reports. The first report described the agroforestry value chain for seven contrasting agroforestry systems across Europe (Tranchina...

This report focuses on information collected from farmers in each Member State through the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), consisting of parcel and sub-parcel boundaries in the Geospatial Information System (GSAA)  details on land use, crops and animals in the Land Parcel Information System (LPIS), and eventually data on...

The DigitAF project, funded by the European Commission and implemented from July 2022 to June 2026, explored how digital tools, open data and stakeholder co-design can accelerate the adoption of high-quality agroforestry across Europe. Agroforestry—the deliberate integration of trees and shrubs with crops or livestock—can help farms adapt to climate...

This dataset contains the data from a soil health assessment across eight sites in seleceted Living Lab farms in Portugal, Finland, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Czechia and Germany. In all sites, a consistent set of four parameters of soil health were measured, which are also required within the...

This deliverable documents the implementation of the so called “Agroforestry Virtual Space”,  a centralized digital ecosystem that serves as the nexus for policy actors, practitioners, and tool developers. The context of this work is rooted in the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA), ensuring that the digital architecture responds to the actual socioeconomic...

This report is relevant for the communication about the project and dissemination to all three stakeholders’ groups: 1-Policy actors, 2-Practitioners and 3-Beneficiaries of AF products and services. It presents the DigitAF roadmap for long-term uptake, dissemination, and sustainability of agroforestry digital tools and datasets beyond the project lifetime (2022-2026). It...

Deliverable 1.6 of the EU DigitAF Project (digitaf.eu) is the final deliverable of WorkPackage 1 "Strengthening agroforestry and carbon farming policies: tools for policymakers".  It  analyses  agroforestry policies across 14 EU Member States, examining current regulatory limitations, land tenure constraints, and the integration of agricultural trees with broader EU environmental...

In surveys of user needs for agroforestry tools, the request for agroforestry tools to predict the financial benefits and costs of new or existing systems, relative to an existing enterprise, typically features highly. Within the EU funded research project DigitAF (Grant Agreement N° 101059794), one of the objectives was to enhance the quantification...

The DigitAF research project (July 2022 - June 2026), funded by the European Commission, aims at a high-quality implementation of agroforestry to foster climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture and to ensure sustainable management of natural resources. Our goal is to provide the main actor groups with tools answering...

One output of the project is a study of methods for determining and accounting for soil health and greenhouse gas emissions within agroforestry systems (den Herder et al., 2026). The first half of that report describes the measurement and reporting of soil health across seven sites in Czechia, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the...

The first half of the report describes expert-validated methodologies to measure soil health in agroforestry systems. Five Living Lab teams in Czechia, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom plus two other project partners in Portugal and Spain used a common set of soil sampling approaches to determine...

Agroforestry is increasingly promoted as a nature-based solution to reconcile agricultural production  with sustainability goals such as biodiversity conservation. Yet, to our knowledge there are no robust  evidence-based decision-supporting tools to specifically quantify agroforestry implementation  benefits on biodiversity in Europe. Hence in this report, we present the development of an...

This delivearble contains fifteen practical abstracts providing practical information to help farmers, policy actors and beneficiaries of agroforestry products and service to design, manage and evaluate agroforestry systems. The abstracts are ordered by type of concern: ·         financial/marketing: profitability, branding, value chain ·         technical innovation: new system, new crop, new...

DigitAF Deliverable D5.7 synthesizes policy briefings from the DigitAF project produced between June 2022 and March 2026, focusing on the integration and scaling of agroforestry across Europe. It identifies key systemic barriers—such as complex regulatory frameworks under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and insufficient financial incentives—that hinder widespread adoption of...

The DigitAF (DIGItal Tools to help AgroForestry) project, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to overcome barriers to the widespread adoption of agroforestry in Europe. The project aims to utilize agroforestry to bridge the gap between high-level EU climate targets and the faltering delivery of emission reductions in the land sector....

This report is relevant for the second stakeholders’ group. It contains a report on the activities aiming at making models and tools for tree and crop productivity more practice-oriented towards end-users (farmers and advisers), performed between January 2024 (date of submission of the first report on tools and simulation models for tree and...

The presence of trees in agroforestry systems has a substantial effect on the crop’s microclimate (Jacobs et al., 2022). Specifically, trees reduce the wind speed, the light availability and the crop temperature, and increase the relative humidity, all of which tend to reduce crop evapotranspiration (ET), which is the sum...

Specifically, Deliverable 2.2 present an overview of the results obtained thanks to the survey applied to the Living Labs during the first two years of the project. In Deliverable 2.1 the structure of the survey performed was presented and extensively explained. In the current Deliverable report, particularly in section 3, we will...

This report focuses on methods which can be used to estimate the area and GHG emissions of agroforestry in Europe. Multiple pressures on European Forests make it more important than ever to recognise the importance of Trees outside Forests (ToF), including agroforestry systems and woody landscape features, These should be...

This report describes the FAIR concept (GO FAIR 2024) and its main principles and how these were adapted to the agroforestry context onto the “FAIRness Scoring” (see section 2). FAIR principles are guidelines to enable digital resources to be more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Adapting these principles to specific contexts, such as...

The European Union dearly needs ways to evaluate the success of environmental and climate measures. Currently, each country, legal framework or sector uses its own indicators, and the data, although partly collected at the local level, is often reported only as aggregated data, at the scale of countries (NUTS0). This prevents local decision-makers...

In this preliminary action of the project, our goal is to identify the actors and flow of products and services both upstream and downstream from by the participatory analysis of value chain constraints for developing novel diversification systems. This report introduces and presents the work conducted to develop the multi-stakeholder action aimed at...

This report is relevant for the communication about the project and dissemination to all three stakeholders’ groups. It contains the information asked for in the EIP agri common format template.

The purpose of this report, produced by the DigitAF project, is to initiate the development of best practice guidelines on how certification and branding can improve the value and marketability of agroforestry products. The introduction explains the context of the report within the wider DigitAF project that is seeking to...

This report addresses Task 2.1 of the DigitAF project. Task 2.1 aims to better understand and optimise the technical, administrative, and financial aspects of installing and managing agroforestry in a farming landscape. In this report, we deal particularly with the financial aspects at farm level, which aims to enhance the quantification of the...

Six Living Labs (LL) were formed with members consisting of all actor groups to understand the needs of each actor groups, and to test and evaluate digital tools. A first step was to analyse the needs and wants of the members of these Living Labs and summarize the outcomes in this report.

This report is relevant for the communication about the project and dissemination to all three stakeholders’ groups. It contains the creation of three buyer personas representing the three stakeholders groups and more specifically:– Buyer persona “Policy actor Agnes”: represents policymakers and administrations concerned with applying agroforestry-related regulations, at regional, national and European levels–...

Marie Gosme (1) , Tom De Swaef (2) , Christian Dupraz (3) , Marc Jaeger (4) , Karen Lammoglia (1) , Maryline Laurans (5) , Isabelle Lecomte (1) , Magali Pellissier (6) , Benoit Ricci (1) , Clément Rigal (1) , Victor Rolo (7) , Marc Saudreau (8) , Nathalie...

Agroforestry can enhance biodiversity conservation in agroecosystems, but it is still difficult to quantify such outputs. This study combines insights from meta-analyses, a stakeholder questionnaire, and an inventory of biodiversity assessment tools to develop a way to quantify biodiversity outcomes. Through meta-analyses, we evaluated the impact of agroforestry on biodiversity...

This report is relevant for the integration of knowledge and actions of all three stakeholders’ groups. It contains a Data collating plan which documents the choices made to allow collating data from different data sources.This data collating plan feeds into the broader objectives of task 4.2 which is: Evaluating and...

This report is relevant for actors developing and improving tools and models that can support the second stakeholders’ group. The extraction of relevant architectural traits from LiDAR scan data is useful for use in process-based models that have a simpler 3D implementation of trees (e.g., Hi-sAFe). These architectural traits can...

This document, Deliverable D2.1, deals with the design and implementation of a comprehensive survey to gather relevant data for the project's objectives and activities. While originally the deliverable was intended to focus on a specific survey on “technical & administrative issues”, it was agreed quite early in the project’s process...

This report summarises agroforestry related policies in the CAP Strategic plans of the 14 countries involved in the DigitAF Project. It has sections on: 1) Definitions of agroforestry, 2) Landscape features, 3) Definitions of permanent grassland, 4) Ecoschemes, 5) Rural development measures, 6) CAP Simplification Regulation 7) Nature Restoration Regulation,...

This report describes the progress towards the aim of developing a web-based European map of agroforestry, including suppliers and consultants.  This aim was achieved bearing in mind the following three points: Although there are existing mapping activities of agroforestry at a European level, such as the maps on the AGFORWARD...