by INI | Jan 29, 2025 | News, Update Experimentation
In a previous project’s news (November 2023) we emphasized that a great deal of plant-plant interactions in intercropping take place in the hidden root zone, and presented a rather simple phenotyping pipeline to measure root traits based on rhizoboxes. These boxes...
by INI | Jan 21, 2025 | Case Studies, CICS13, News
Over the past few months, the IntercropVALUES team at FiBL has been focused on strengthening connections within the value chain and identifying barriers related to intercropping wheat and faba bean for food production. In May, the team organised a multi-stakeholder...
by INI | Dec 17, 2024 | CICS010, News
Two years of agronomic trials: where does CICS 10 stand? In 2023, a group of farmers in the Anjou region began a series of full-scale experiments on lentil-based associated crops, with the aim of marketing these lentils to local caterers. A year later, the...
by INI | Dec 10, 2024 | News
The Faculty of Agriculture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), a key partner in the IntercropVALUES project, has been actively advancing intercropping practices through innovative research, stakeholder engagement, and field experiments. Over the past year,...
by INI | Nov 7, 2024 | Case Studies, News
In the context of the current agricultural specialisation in Europe, intercropping, an agroecological practice corresponding to mixtures of arable crops in the same field, is particularly relevant. By reintroducing diversity in arable lands, it could help...
by INI | Oct 18, 2024 | CICS02, News
Drone view of the intercropping of wheat and pea experiment in Lönnstorp (pic: Ryan D) Cropping systems in Southern Sweden are highly specialized; focused on producing arable cash crops with a high dependence on external inputs such as fertilizers, weed control...
