Conferences

General information

EURAF, the European Agroforestry Federation (http://www.eurafagroforestry.eu/), is glad to announce the 6th European Agroforestry Conference, EURAF2022 (www.euraf2022.eu), which will be held in Nuoro from the 16th to 20th May 2022. The conference, which is part of the cycle of biennial events promoted by EURAF, is organized in collaboration with and with the support of numerous Italian institutions and agencies.

Agroforestry for the Green Deal transition is the primary topic of the next European agroforestry conference, which is collaborating the ambitious European manifesto aiming towards the development of an advanced, carbon neutral, and circular economy. Agroforestry, which represents a pool of agricultural and forestry practices supporting the inclusion of trees in fields (silvoarable systems) and the integrated management of forests and animal breeding in silvopastoral systems (only to mention the two main agroforestry groups), can have a fundamental role in supporting the Green Deal. Sustainable agriculture; environment protection and ecosystem services; the mitigation of climate change; the quality of agricultural, forestry, and animal production; and landscape safeguards are the pivotal points of a confrontation in which agroforestry is involved.

Scientific, technical, and political confrontation will be at the heart of a five-day conference in which agroforestry culture will find itself severely constrained by the COVID-19 pandemic in the spatial and time dimension.

In particular, the agroforestry themes that will be faced by researchers, students, and European agroforestry professionals in Nuoro will relate to the main themes of environment, economy, and production; policy; and culture, with a special focus on the traditional agroforestry systems of Southern Europe, specifically the Mediterranean agro-silvo-pastoral systems.

Over the years, the European agroforestry conferences promoted by EURAF have involved hundreds of participants and become important occasions in terms of debate and visibility to the public and private actors working in the field of agroforestry, which is a growing sector characterized by increasing interest from the academic world and policy, as well as international companies.

Further information is provided at: https://uninuoro.it/euraf2022/

For other information or details, feel free to contact: secretariat@euraf2022.eu

Invited Speakers:

Pietro Oieni, Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, Italy
Tobias Pleninger, University of Gottingen and the University of Kassel, Germany
Teresa Pinto Correia, University of Evora, Portugal
Marie Gosme, INRAE, Montpellier, France

Key topics

• Agroforestry and the Environment:
• Climate change (adaptation and mitigation);
• Biodiversity;
• Landscape planning and management;
• Wildfires.
• Quality, safety, and sustainability of agroforestry productions (processes and products):
• Crop and grassland productions;
• Timber, energy and non-wood forest productions;
• Livestock productions.
• Economy and Policy of Agroforestry:
• Neutrality certifications and carbon farming;
• Agroforestry European policy;
• Agroforestry business environment models;
• Governance for traditional sustainable agro-silvo-pastoral systems.
• Agroforestry in Society and Culture:
• Education, training, dissemination and promotion;
• Gender and youth engagement in agroforestry;
• Agroforestry and historical landscapes: heritage identity and a driver for sustainable tourism.

Organizing Committee

Giovanni Pinna Parpaglia – UNINUORO
Giuseppe Pulina – Università di Sassari
Donatella Spano – Università di Sassari e CMCC
Giovanna Seddaiu – Università di Sassari
Pier Paolo Roggero – Università di Sassari
Adolfo Rosati – CREA-OLI
Pierluigi Paris – CNR-IRET
Andrea Pisanelli – CNR-IRET
Marco Lauteri – CNR-IRET
Francesca Camilli – CNR-IBE
Bachisio Arca – CNR-IBE
Giustino Mezzalira – Veneto Agricoltura
Federico Correale – Veneto Agricoltura
Salvatore Mele – FoReSTAS
Manuela Manca – FoReSTAS
Giorgio Ragaglini – Università di Milano
Marcello Mele – Università di Pisa
Alberto Mantino – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
Giovanni Piras – AGRIS
Pino Ruiu – AGRIS
Antonio Franca – CNR-ISPAAM
Antonio Trabucco – CMCC
Pier Mario Chiarabaglio – CREA-FL
Anna Panozzo – Università di Padova

Scientific Committee

Gerry Lawson (UK)
Dagnija Lazdina (LV)
Maria-rosa Mosquera (ES)
Paul Burgess (UK)
Joana Amaral (PT)
Lojka Bohdan (CZ)
Robert Borek (PL)
Christopher Morhart (DE)
Andrea Vityi (HU)
Antonio Trabucco (IT)
Ian Short (IE)
Jo Smith (PT)
Nuria Ferreiro (ES)
Anna Panozzo (IT)
Zita Szalai (HU)
Alberto Mantino (IT)
Manuel Bartomeu (ES)
Adolfo Rosati (IT)
Marcello Mele (IT)
Giorgio Ragaglini (IT)
Fracesca Camilli (IT)
Giovanna Seddiu (IT)
Donatella Spano (IT)
Antonello Franca (IT)
Valentina Bacciu (IT)
Giuseppe Pulina (IT)
Pierluigi Paris (IT)
Francesco Reyes (IT)

https://uninuoro.it/euraf2022/