CICS 02
Increased market demand for locally produces, value addition, unlocking from local to national
Topic
Value chain
Country
Sweden
Responsible
SLU – Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet
Objectives:
- Generate knowledge-based arguments for using intercropped legumes in local food markets and novel food products, e.g., proven agronomic, environmental and/or soil health benefits
- Recommendations on how to achieve agronomic, environmental, and soil health benefits by intercropping
- More efficient post-harvest handling, on-farm as well as in centralized facilities
- Improved marketing of intercropped legumes
Best advice for the success of the project in one sentence: Facilitate the local regional national trade and processing of legumes, so that all value chain actors understand the great value of local legume production, especially from intercropping and consumers easily find legume-based products from their home region, and so that farmers’ gain the full benefits of legume cultivation (intercropped or not).
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Updates from
the CICS 02:
VIDEO RELEASE: introducing intercropping and intercropVALUES, from our Bonn meeting
As European projects want to bridge the gap between research and the general public, videos are a good tool to show people what the aim of the research is, why it is relevant, how the results can change people's lives, and how European project partners organise all...
A summer to learn about intercropping
A summer to learn about intercropping Summer is starting and it is time to rest. The IntercropVALUES project started in November and the official kick-off took place at the end of that month, when all partners met in Montpellier to launch the activities and establish...
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