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AFAN
Agroforestry Action Network
Connecting communities with agroforestry to regenerate multifunctional landscapes
Learn More Get Involved
Agroforestry Action Network
Connecting communities with agroforestry to regenerate multifunctional landscapes
Learn More Get InvolvedPublications & updates from AFAN
We organize action projects to strengthen environmental-social resilience through applied agroforestry and experimentation.
Our participatory action projects enable people to help shape agroforestry systems, everyone contributing to environmental regeneration and bio-(cultural) diversity enhancement in their own way.
We host place-based workshops, demonstrations, and cultural events, alongside online sessions, to engage learners and practitioners.
Educational agroforestry experiences transform participants into practitioners, building not only multidisciplinary knowledge but positive place experience.
We collaborate with municipalities, universities, and civic groups to create lasting impact in regenerating local ecosystem areas.
By bridging municipalities, universities, and civic groups, we secure resources and permissions needed to support restoration efforts and enhance project impact.
We catalyze social learning through exploring diverse forms of participation in global agroforestry projects.
Connecting with agroforestry networks worldwide, we enhance community engagement in agroforestry through interdisciplinary research & project collaborations.
AFAN is a non-profit network connecting students, practitioners, and local communities to regenerate public landscapes through agroforestry. We work in parks, forests, community gardens, and other appropriate sites, especially degraded or marginal land and transition areas.
As a networked organisation, we facilitate collaborations that contribute to community-led agroforestry systems, stakeholder engagement, and environmental education. Through our local projects, we connect interested practitioners to spaces where their skills directly benefit the public. Local projects engage diverse communities in learning and applying agroforestry-based regenerative practices. Practitioners can as members also participate in network exchanges with our international partner organisations. From transdisciplinary project workstreams to local and international learning experiences, there are ways for everyone to get involved and take action through agroforestry practice!
AFAN launched in 2025 with a participatory approach: public events and an open planning process. Our members lead community-driven activities that maintain, stabilize, and regenerate space. Event activities are open to everyone, enabling students, professionals, families, and residents participate to learn together as practitioners of agroforestry.
Accessible events and tools enable anyone, students, families, and professionals, to actively participate in local environmental projects.
Participatory research and implementation of low-cost adapted agroforestry solutions for water management, biodiversity, and soil health.
Terrain contoured & succession design, composting and mulching, and perennial ground cover crops help secure soil structure and hydrological function in degraded landscapes.
Faster-growing 'pioneers' are combined with longer-term species, across root, ground, shrub, and canopy layers, mimicking principles of forest succession.
Based in Lund, Sweden, this project restores and reactivates the public park landscape through community-led agroforestry initiatives. We're working with the municipality, alongside schools and the public to build local ecological and social resilience to climate change.
Are you looking for a community of collaboration and applied learning? Click below to be contacted by organisers in your area.
Our agroforestry projects connect landscapes, food systems, and people to (re-) build ecosystems & communities.
At AFAN, we connect people to real, community-led agroforestry projects where they can learn, contribute, and apply diverse skills across food production, garden design, climate adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, and more.
Interested in getting involved but not sure where to start?
Fill out the form below to request a one-on-one conversation with an AFAN project facilitator. We'll help you explore how your interests, skills, and availability can connect to ongoing or upcoming agroforestry projects.