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Även relativt små trädbeklädda ytor
som bryter monokulturen (bilden)
har stora positiva effekter för den
biologiska mångfalden. / Even relatively small tree-covered areas that
break the monoculture (photo) have
major positive effects on biological
diversity.
5. AGROFORESTRY IN SWEDISH POLITICS
Author: Linnéa Pasquier
A strict dividing line between arable land and
spruce forest is symbolic of the Swedish landscape a metaphor for the narrow political division between
agriculture and forestry. In agroforestry, agriculture
often cooperates with forestry, blurring the distinction between different types of land ownership into
an integrated land use. However, as agroforestry
ners working at different scales. Sweden has been
slightly lagging behind in raising agroforestry in
policy spaces compared to other EU countries, such
as France and Germany [34, 35].
isn’t classified as either agriculture or forestry under
current definitions, it falls through the cracks [21,
30, 31].
“The combination of trees and
pasture (silvopastoral agroforestry) provides greater production
per hectare than trees and pasture-based meat production alone
on separate areas.”
Despite this obstacle, agroforestry is mentioned in
both the EU’s “Farm to Fork” [32] and “Biodiversity
Strategy” [33] as a method with great potential to
meet the challenges facing agriculture today. In
Sweden, as in many other European countries,
interest in agroforestry is growing among practitio-
On a national level, agroforestry has been treated
as a proposal by the Ministry of the Environment in
- Karl-Ivar Kumm, SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences. “The Decline and Possible Return of Silvopastoral Agroforestry in Sweden”.
