On 20 May 2025, two members of the DiP-SMART Agroforst project, Jonathan Renkel and Jan Lukas Wenzel, attended the MODEMA project’s agroforestry field day on the topic of ‘Soils and water availability in agroforestry systems on dry sites’ at the Dr Eicke Zschoche farm. Together with a broad audience from agriculture, consulting, science and politics, the utilisation of the diverse ecosystem services of agroforestry systems in view of increasingly prolonged dry periods in the Central German arid region was discussed. We would like to thank the MODEMA project for the invitation and organisation of the many interesting topics and Dr. Zschoche for the profound insights into his experiences with agroforestry systems.
