Project
Designing agroforestry systems
Complex agroforestry systems (CAS) are emerging as a novel land use system in the Netherlands, mainly under the popular name of food forests. To scale up and out, CAS need to go beyond the provision of social-cultural and environmental services and enhance their economic viability. There is a need for scientific underpinning for the choices related to design, implementation and management of these systems.
Through this project, WUR researchers build a knowledge base for CAS by engaging stakeholders from practice. In a workshop, they wlll map and prioritise key challenges for the design, contribute to the national research agenda and make a concrete design for five pilot projects, and construct an open-source plant functional trait-database. The five pilot projects will provide learning landscapes to facilitate continuous place-based learning for Wageningen students, practitioners and researchers.