by INI | Oct 16, 2025 | CICS04, News, Update Experimentation
In a collaborative effort between INRAE researchers and an organic farmer in Southwest France, a new flour blend made from wheat and chickpeas was introduced to local consumers through a participatory cooking trial. The initiative, part of the IntercropVALUES project,...
by INI | Sep 19, 2025 | Case Studies, News, Update Experimentation
In September 2025, IFOAM Organics Europe spent the yearly staff excursion in the Champagne region of France, visiting organic farms and tasting delicious champagne. The mission of IFOAM Organics Europe is to Make Europe More Organic. And for that, we stay inspired by...
by INI | Apr 15, 2025 | Case Studies, News, Update Experimentation
A group of about 25 international students (representing several Countries from Europe, Africa and Asia) engaged in the Master’s course on Agri-food Sustainability at the University of Pavia, Italy, visited CREA Lodi on April 11th. They were accompanied by Dr...
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 | Aug 23, 2024 | News, Update Experimentation
Zishen Wang and Bei Dong earned their PhD from Wageningen University in May 2024, under the supervision of Dr. Wopke van der Werf, Dr. Tjeerd Jan Stomph, and Prof. Dr. Jochem Evers. Both theses were part of ReMIX project, the predecessor of IntercropVALUES. The...
by INI | Aug 19, 2024 | News, Update Experimentation
During June and July 2024, Professor Long Li and Dr. Rui-Peng Yu organized two field trips to visit the maize/soybean intercropping experiment in Zhangye, Gansu Province, PR China, which is included as one of the meta-experiments in WP 2 in IntercropVALUES Project. In...
