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Nordic Agroforestry at Scale: Creating a Roadmap for sustainability in Climate, Agriculture, and economic Resources

PROJECT INFO:

DURATION: 
2026-2029
 
FUNDING:
The Mission Partnership 
 

PARTNERS:
Technical University of Denmark 
Tecology
Mikkelsen og Ko.
Velas

CHALLENGE

Limited knowledge of climate and biodiversity impacts in livestock agroforestry systems

TECHNOLOGY

Integrated monitoring and modelling of carbon fluxes, biodiversity and animal welfare

POTENTIAL

Supports climate-smart livestock production and sustainable land-use planning

Goal

  • Measure greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in Nordic livestock agroforestry
  • Quantify biodiversity, animal welfare, soil health, and microclimate impacts
  • Evaluate environmental and economic outcomes under carbon tax scenarios
  • Develop scalable monitoring and modelling tools to inform climate, land-use, and agricultural policy
     

Plan

  • Deploy an eddy covariance tower, soil and microclimate sensors, insect monitors, and livestock collars at a Danish agroforestry site
  • Monitor CO₂, CH₄, water and energy fluxes, biodiversity, animal welfare, soil health, and productivity over three years
  • Combine field and satellite data with machine learning to map carbon fluxes in agroforestry systems
  • Compare conventional, grazing, and agroforestry livestock systems through environmental and economic analyses
  • Engage farmers, advisors, and consumers through surveys, focus groups, field days, and site visits
     

Expected results

  • Datasets on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, welfare, and microclimate
  • Validated carbon-flux models and maps for agricultural greenhouse gas assessment
  • Quantified biodiversity, soil-health, and welfare benefits of agroforestry
  • Recommendations for climate-smart livestock production and land-use planning
  • Economic scenarios for agroforestry under carbon taxation
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Mette Kallestrup Spring

Mette Kallestrup Spring

Program Manager (mission partnership)
mesp@foodbiocluster.dk
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