Agroforestry för svenska förhållanden 2024 - Flipbook - Page 71
Kakor och bröd på mjöl av och hummus på kokt
svensk äkta kastanj. / Cookies and bread made
from flour and hummus made from boiled sweet
chestnuts from Sweden.
8. THE EDIBLE & MULTIFUNCTIONAL
LANDSCAPE
Original author: Philipp Weiss. Rewritten by: Linus Linse
To conclude this brochure, we would like to include
a condensed and paraphrased version of the chapter
“The Edible Landscape” from the book “The Nut
Grower’s Handbook” (“Nötodlarens handbok”), by
Philipp Weiss, which contextualises the importance
of developing agroforestry in today’s food production
system.
change and an alarming decline in biodiversity, we
need to reassess our relationship with agriculture and
the landscape. Some predictions suggest that Sweden’s
average temperature could be 6 degrees higher by the
end of the century, and we are already seeing biodiversity loss occurring 100 - 1000 times faster today
than in pre-industrial times.
In a world characterised by accelerating climate
What was once a fragmented agricultural landscape
Trädrader med valnöt, plommon och
nyplanterade rader med vindruvor,
Wakelyns Agroforestry, England. / Tree
rows of walnut, plum and newly planted
rows of grapes, Wakelyns Agroforestry,
England.
