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...
by INI | Feb 28, 2024 | CICS05, News, Update Experimentation
The acceptance and adoption of sustainable arable farming strategies does not depend on agriculture alone. Agroecological innovations always affect the entire value chain, i.e. all processing stages, as well as consumers. Together with 25 actors including farmers,...
by INI | Jan 31, 2024 | News, Update Experimentation
Due to the modernization of crop production, many methods to reach higher yields have largely been explored. Most of these methods involve improving the efficiency of the utilization of different resources like solar radiation, water and nutrients. One of these...
