Samenvatting

Royal Eijkelkamp is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in soil improvement, soil conditions, water preservation, and agricultural research. The company has started an innovation platform in partnership with Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences that is named InnoFields. The InnoFields platform intends to use agroforestry as one of their innovative pilots where long-term monitoring will take place by using state-of-the-art analysis and technologies (e.g., ground sensor data, soil moisture, soil health/biology). The agroforestry pilot will generate robust scientific information over the effects of crop diversification as well as the interactions between perennial and annual crops in agricultural systems and the delivery and enhancement of ecosystem services.