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    Data underpinning: 'NERC Research Translation: Grassland Management' project
    (Cranfield University, 2022-09-08 13:38) Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Burgess, Paul; Richter, Goetz; Bell, Matthew; F. E. Topp, Cairistiona; Ingram, Julie; Takahashi, Taro
    LINGRA-N-Plus along with its Teaching Guide, as developed in the NERC Research Translation: Grassland Management Project, supported by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club (SARIC).
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    Farm-SAFE v3 - Comparing the financial benefits and costs of arable, forest, and agroforestry systems
    (Cranfield University, 2024-02-06 13:58) Graves, Anil; Burgess, Paul; Wiltshire, Katy; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Herzog, Felix; Palma, Joao
    Agroforestry systems integrate trees with livestock and/or arable crops on the same parcel of land. Compared to monoculture arable or grass systems, agroforestry systems can enhance soil conservation, carbon sequestration, species and habitat diversity, and provide additional sources of farm income. Farm-SAFE (Financial and Resource use Model for Simulating AgroForestry in Europe) is a spreadsheet-based bio-economic model which has been developed in Microsoft® Excel® to compare the financial benefits and costs of crop-only, tree-only, and agroforestry system over tree rotations of up to 60 years (Graves et al., 2024a). The results are presented in both graphical and tabular form in terms of a net present value and equivalent annual values. A description and user guide is also available (Graves et al., 2024b). Farm-SAFE requires input of tree and crop yields. One way to obtain crop and tree yields in tree-only, agroforestry, and crop-only systems is to use the Yield-SAFE model. Yield-SAFE is a spreadsheet-based biophysical model which has been developed to enable the prediction of the relationship between tree and crop yields over the rotation of the tree component. A copy of the Yield-SAFE model, together with a full description and user guide, is available here. The original Farm-SAFE model was developed with funding from the European Union through the Silvoarable Agroforestry For Europe project (contract number QLK5-CT-2001-00560). The process of creating a default publicly available version of the model has been enabled through the BioForce project funded by the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J., Wiltshire, C., Giannitsopoulos, M., Herzog, F., Palma, J.H.N. (2024a). Farm-SAFE v3 model in Excel. Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK: Cranfield University. Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J., Wiltshire, C., Giannitsopoulos, M., Herzog, F., Palma, J.H.N. (2024b). Description and User Guide for Farm-SAFE v3. January 2024. Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK: Cranfield University. 42 pp.
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    Yield-SAFE v2 - Biophysical model for tree and crop yields in agroforestry
    (Cranfield University, 2024-01-23 09:50) Burgess, Paul; Graves, Anil
    Agroforestry systems integrate trees with livestock and/or arable crops on the same parcel of land. Compared to monoculture arable or grass systems, agroforestry systems can enhance soil conservation, carbon sequestration, species and habitat diversity, and provide additional sources of farm income. However, as the trees increase in size, the grass and/or arable yields will tend to decline due to light and water competition with the trees. The form of the tree-crop yield relationship will vary with the level of solar radiation, rainfall, the species being grown, management actions such as choice of planting date and pruning, the soil type, and the time from tree planting. The Yield-SAFE v2 provides the opportunity to model the response of tree-only, agroforestry, and crop-only systems in the same worksheet. Yield-SAFE is a spreadsheet-based biophysical model which has been developed in Microsoft® Excel® to enable the prediction of the relationship between tree and crop yields over the rotation of the tree component. The full name for Yield-SAFE is the €œYIeld trategyEstimator for Long term Design of Silvoarable AgroForestry in Europe€ . The original Yield-SAFE model was developed with funding from the European Union through the Silvoarable Agroforestry For Europe project (contract number QLK5-CT-2001-00560). The process of creating a default publicly available version of the model has been enabled through the BioForce project funded by the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.