AIM Forest
AIM Forest is a natural capital investment platform developing sustainable, irrigated cork oak forestry projects in southern Portugal, combi…
Agroforestry
Trees and farming as one system: Herdade do Freixo do Meio's montado agroforestry is a national reference, and projects across the country are following. Old wisdom, new urgency.
Projects in this focus
Ilhas de Biodiversidade
Ilhas de Biodiversidade plants dense native mini-forests with the Miyawaki method in industrial, educational and community settings across P…
Regen Waves
Regen Waves is a non-profit movement working to regenerate the Arrábida bioregion through native “superforests”, community-led Regen Walks a…
OArborista
OArborista is a certified arboriculture company based in Sesimbra and Lisbon, led by the professional arborist Ruben Oliveira, who has over …
GEOTA
GEOTA (Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente) is a national non-profit environmental NGO, active since 1981, working on e…
Agroforestry in Portugal
Portugal has practised agroforestry for centuries without calling it that. The montado (cork oaks and holm oaks over grazing and cereal) is one of the oldest agroforestry systems in Europe, and it is the reference point for most of the newer work here.
Herdade do Freixo do Meio farms the montado as an integrated system and is widely cited as a national example. Around it, projects are planting tree lines into arable fields, alley-cropping, and adding fruit and nut layers to grazing land.
The economics are slow (trees pay late), so projects often pair it with activities that pay sooner. See also the cork oak and montado, syntropic farming and holistic grazing focuses. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.