Theme
Farm Woodlands: Education, Research and Policy
Dates
Tuesday 21st June - Thursday 23rd June
Location
Ballyhaise Agricultural College, Co Cavan, Ireland
Organisers
The conference was jointly organised by AFBI and Teagasc.
Jim McAdam
Nuala NiFhlatharta
Rory Lunny
Kevin O'Connell
Ian Short
Schedule
Tuesday 21st June. Welcome from the Principal of Ballyhaise College, John Kelly. Guest Address: Andrew Doyle TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for Forestry.
Session 1. Training and Education
Overview of Teagasc and AFBI role in agroforestry and farm woodlands. Keven O'Connell (Ballyhaise College) and Jim McAdam (AFBI)
Forestry training at Ballyhaise College. Marianne Lyons (Teagasc)
Fostering a forestry culture: an outline of Teagasc's forestry advisory, training and development programme. John Casey (Teagasc)
Royal Forestry Society programme of training and short courses to support forestry. Ted Wilson (RFS)
Session 2. Management
What effect has buffer zone spacing on the growth of a cherry tree and willow bioenergy crop grown in close association in an alley coppice (AC) system. Rory Lunny (Queens University Belfast)
Provisional remedial silviculture protocols for broadleaf stands. Ian Short and Jerry Campion (Teagasc)
Session 3. Agroforestry and Climate Change
Agroforestry - an option to mitigate GHG emissions in the European Union? Gerry Lawson and Nathan de Baets
Contribution of hedgerows and agroforestry within the GHG accounting system in Northern Ireland. Jonathan Blair, Rodrigo Olave, Erin Sherry and Alex Higgins
Assessing the externalities of silvoarable systems in Farm-SAFE. Silvestre Garcia de Jalon, Anil Graves, Kristina J. Kaske, João Palma, Josep Crous-Duran and Paul Burgess
Session 4. Policy and Knowledge Transfer
Policies to encourage trees on farms in the UK and Ireland: comparison of CAP (2014-2020) Pillar I and Pillar II measures. Gerry Lawson, Eugene Curran, Jim McAdam, Mike Strachan, Tim Pagella, Terry Thomas and Jo Smith
The AGFORWARD project and stakeholder groups across north-west Europe. Paul Burgess, Jo Smith, Jim McAdam, Silvestre Garcia de Jalon, Stephanie Aviron, Nathalie Corroyer, Regis Wartelle and Michael den Herder