Dix groupes de travail à travers l'Europe ont produit des descriptions de systèmes : les composants, la structure, les services d'écosystème et la valeur économique de systèmes d'agroforesterie qui impliquent le pâturage ou les pré-vergers, les oliveraies, noyeraies, châtaigneraies. Professor Anastasia Pantera, le leader du WP3, a produit une synthèse courte des 10 rapports. Les rapports de description de système individuels sont aussi disponibles sur le site Web approprié.

Pantera, A., Burgess, P.J., Corroyer, N., Ferreiro-Domínguez, N., Fernández Lorenzo, J.L., González-Hernández, P., Graves, A., Malignier, N., McAdam, J., Moreno, G., Mosquera-Losada, M.R., Rigueiro Rodríguez, A., Rosati, A., Upson, M., van Lerberghe, P. (2016). Agroforestry for High Value Trees: Synthesis of System Descriptions. Deliverable 3.7 (3.1) for EU FP7 Research Project: AGFORWARD 615320. June 2016. 10 pp. (Download the report here).

Three of the systems comprise the grazing of apple orchards with a replicated field experiment in Northern Ireland (McAdam and Ward, 2015), a field demonstration in Normandie in France (Corroyer, 2016) and a field demonstration and some modelling work in Herefordshire in England (Burgess et al., 2016). Three of the systems comprise the intercropping or grazing of olive groves. There is one group in Italy (Rosati and Mantovani, 2015), one group based in Molos in Central Greece (Pantera et al., 2016a) and a group based in Chalkidiki in Northern Greece (Mantzanas et al., 2015). The other group based in Greece is focused on intercropping between oranges in Crete (Pantera et al., 2016a).

There are two groups in Spain that are studying contrasting systems. Fernández Lorenzo et al. (2016) describe the development of mushrooms within a chestnut system; Moreno et al. (2015) describe the use of grazing and the use of legumes within walnut plantations. The last group is focused on the management and use of pollarded trees in the Pyrenees in South-West France (van Lerberghe and Malignier, 2016).