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Key publications
Hood, A. S. C., Scholes, R. E., Degani, E., Staton, T., Varah, A., Beauchamp, K., Broome, A., Burgess, P., Chesshire, H., Colbert, E. P., Loder-Symonds, E., Ramskir-gardiner, J., Rayner, A. C., Tosh, C., Mauchline, A. L., & Venn, R. (2026). Co-producing a research agenda for agroforestry using a multi-actor approach. In Press Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
Hood, A. S. C., Scherfranz, V., Scholes, R., Degani, E. , Staton, T., Varah, A., Schaller, L., & Mauchline, A. (2025) Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them. People and Nature. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70219
Briefs and handbooks
Policy actions to promote agroforestry
Policy actions to promote agroforestry
This is the first page of a policy brief that shows key actions for policymakers identified during Millie's Treescapes fellowship.
For the second page, click here.
Education actions to promote agroforestry
Education actions to promote agroforestry
This is the first page of a brief for agroforestry advisors and educators that summarises some key results from Millie's Treescapes fellowship.
For the second page, click here.
Farming with biodiversity handbook
Farming with biodiversity handbook
This handbook showcases results from across the H2020 SHOWCASE project.
In the UK, we ran a farmer-led research trial on cover crops, and showed that they increased spider abundance by 26% and earthworms by 66%! Spiders are important for pest control and earthworms are important for soil health.
Skip to p.87 for results for our results. Thanks to project partners LEAF and Oakbank.
Infographics and posters
Earthworms across three systems
Earthworms across three systems
This poster was presented by Chryssa at the British Ecological Society Conference in 2025. It shows preliminary results from her masters project, where she investigated the impact of silvoarable agroforestry on earthworms and organic matter compared to two monocultures: arable and orchard systems. Chryssa found that for earthworms, orchard systems offered the best habitat, followed by silvoarable systems and then arable ones.
Planting crops in tree row understories
Planting crops in tree row understories
Leila presented this poster at the FoodBioSystems DTP conference in 2025. It shows some early results from her PhD project, where she has been interviewing farmers across the country to identify the potential opportunities for planting understory crops in silvoarable tree rows.
Research Priorities for Agroforestry
Research Priorities for Agroforestry
This infographic presents key findings from Millie's Treescapes project, where she co-designed research priorities for agroforestry with 156 stakeholders in the UK. Thanks to Live Illustration for making this!
Silvoarable soil health
Silvoarable soil health
This poster shows preliminary results from Rosy's PhD, where she has been looking at the impact of silvoarable farming on soil health compared to arable farming. Rosy found a statistically significant increase in earthworm abundance in the tree rows and spilling into the crop alleys. More earthworms means healthier soils and greater resilience to climate change.
Rosy has collected two more years of data to add to these findings, and her paper is in review.
Videos
Co-producing educational and research agendas for UK agroforestry
Co-producing educational and research agendas for UK agroforestry
In 2025, Millie presented the results of her Treescapes Fellowship at an online webinar. These results have been summarised into policy and educational briefs and two papers, and you can find links to these above.
Why should farmers participate in science?
Why should farmers participate in science?
Farming with cover crops
Farming with cover crops
During the H2020 SHOWCASE project, we found that cover crops can benefit soil health. They increased earthworm abundance by 53% when the cover crops were in and 66% in the subsequent crop.
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