Theme
The role of agroforestry in integrated land management
Dates
Wednesday 9th to Thursday 10th July
Location
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Programme
Wednesday 9th July
Insights from Experimental Research Sites
John Holland (SRUC) - 30 years of integrating trees and woodland on a
Perthshire hill far
Mike Perks (Forest Research) - Expanding Agroforestry: an overview of Forest
Research activity
Andrew Ormerod (Independent Researcher) - Phenology assessment of apple
tree trials 2025
Heather Gibbard (Forestry Commission) - Agroforestry with insects - Standing
with an Arm
Experience from Practice and Farming Networks
Stephen McConnachie (Forest Research) - Exploring the interaction between
farmers' values and growing trees
Colin Russell (Ramstane Farm) - Silvopasture at Ramstane Farm
Iain Moss (Woodland Trust) - Examples of innovation - inTREEgration on a farm
Clive Thomas (Soil Association) - Lessons from Whole Farm Tree Plan pilots
Lyn White (Scottish Forestry) - The Integrating Trees Network and its role in
getting trees on farm
Maureen Kilgore (Irish Agroforestry Forum) - Irish Agroforestry Forum (Online
Presentation
Policy and Governance
Rosemary Venn (Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry
University) - Analysing multifunctional land use policies: the case of agroforestry
in England
David McKay (Soil Association) - Payment options to support low-density
agroforestry systems in Scotland
Julie Rostan (University of Aberdeen) - Balancing socio-economic and
environmental factors of the potential for agroforestry across Scotland
Ulrich Schmutz (Coventry University, Ryton Organic Gardens) - AGROMIX:
Europe-wide agroforestry research - bio-physical, economic and policy results
Coventry University, Ryton Organic Garden
Tools, Models, and Decision Support
Alessandro Gimona (James Hutton Institute) - An overview of the FARMTREE
landscape tool to support agroforestry planting decisions
Paul Burgess (Cranfield University) - Collating agroforestry data and models
through the DigitAF project
Tom Staton (University of Reading) - Modelling the production impacts of scaling
up agroforestry systems in England and Wales
David Burslem (University of Aberdeen) - Geographical Authentication of
Scottish-grown Tea
Posters
Kevin Donkers (University of Exeter) - Utilising uncertainty quantification for
strategic agroforestry adoption in the UK
Richard Nokes (RDNokes Countryside Professional) - Agroforestry: A missed
opportunity for new entrants into the land-based sector?
Will Chadwick (Scottish Forestry) - Farm Woodland Assessments in Central
Scotland
Will Simonson (Organic Research Centre) - Silvopasture for building resilience
to climate change in Africa
Fred Farrelly (Practitioner) - Tree Solutions on Northern Ireland Farms
Kaisa Ilmari (Forest Research) - Silvopastoral shelterbelts in poultry farming:
carbon sequestration and ammonia mitigation benefits
Kaisa Ilmari (Forest Research) and Katie Somerville-Hall (University of
Reading) - Ammonia emissions reduce microbial richness and change community
composition along a tree shelterbelt
Farzaneh Razmju (University of Aberdeen) - Recent changes in tree cover on
farms in Afghanistan
Keith Marshall (James Hutton Institute) - Supporting River Woodland
Restoration in Scotland - Aligning research with stakeholder challenges and
evidence needs
Field Visits
Thursday 10th July
A visit to Glensaugh Research Site (James Hutton) by Alison Hester, Scot Ramsay, and Mark Wilkinson. The day is split into two, with one session exploring the existing agroforestry plot trials and recent planting, and the second session covering leaky barriers and their implementation.
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