Life within Planetary Boundaries – Agroforestry, part 2

In this second part of the film, some of Sweden’s and England’s pioneers in Agroforestry explain how our food production can play a key role in restoring ecosystems, creating food security, new jobs and an improved quality of life.

Hur kan vi tillgodose våra mänskliga grundbehov samtidigt som vi stärker hälsan i de ekosystem som vi är en del av? I denna del 2 av filmen berättar några av Sveriges och Englands främsta pionjärer inom Agroforestry hur vi genom vår maproduktion kan få en nyckelroll i att läka ekosystem, skapa matsäkerhet, jobb och ökad livskvallité.

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Medverkande: Philipp Weiss, Martin Crawford, Martin Wolfe, Johanna Björklund m.fl.

Waklyns Agroforestry Farm, Suffolk

Sammanställning (2020) av forskningsresultaten på Wakelyns finns här: Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience Through Diversity, upplagd av återförsäljaren Hodmedod’s. Den finns också att ladda ner här, genom  WoodlandTrust & Organic research Center.

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Dessa audio del 1-3 innehåller intervjumaterial med Martin Wolfe som inte fick plats i filmen.

Del 1. Martin Wolfe (1937-2019), som tillsammans med sin fru grundade Wakelyns under 1990-talet, beskriver sin bakgrund och karriär och hur hans intresse för biologisk och genetisk mångfald fick honom intresserad av först ekologisk odling och sedan för Agroforestry.

Part 1. Martin Wolfe (1937-2019) talks about his childhood, motivations to study Agricultural Botany, early career at the Plant Breeding Institute, how his interest in plant pathology and diversity developed, plant breeding, cereal mixtures and an East German pils lager made from Barley mixtures…

Del 2 och 3. Martin  och hans fru köper en gård i Suffolk och börjar bygga upp ett forskningscenter för Agroforestry med lokala samarbeten. Martin beskriver hur gården idag fungerar som ett mångfunktionellt system som även ger värme och varmvatten, ofantlig biologisk mångfald och spårbarhet.

Part 2. Returning to the UK and putting ideas into practice. Creating Wakelyns Agroforestry. Increasing diversity: moving from cereal mixtures to populations. Taking the case to Brussels. Temporary marketing experiment. Kimberley Bell and Small Food Bakery. Reconnecting growers with bakers. Part 3. Agroforestry and energy, biodiversity. Traceability.

In this booklet by the Danish Okologisk Landsforening, produced in 2018, Wakelyns is represented among other outstanding examples of Agroforestry in Europe.

”The UK has been slow to embrace agroforestry, fearing trees compete for valuable space and water. In fact they can increase crop diversity as well as profits, as two pioneering Cambridgeshire farmers have found” – Interview with M. Wolfe in The Guardian.

In 2018, M. Wolfe received the ”Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 1st International Conference on Healthy Food, held at Bologna University in Italy, for ”his contribution to the development of plant breeding, diversity, environment and sustainable food production”. The conference brings together like-minded scientists to discuss the topics of landraces, including modern populations, ancient and heritage wheat with a focus on health and nutrition as well as natural flavors and aromas. These scientists have recognized the many problems that many modern wheat varieties are causing and have been studying alternatives to this kind of modern wheat as well as current industrialized farming systems and high speed, high volume food processing models.