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IntercropVALUES Launches a New Webinar Series Exploring Equipment, Soil Health, and Food Processing in Intercropping Systems
A Comprehensive Look at Intercropping Across the Value Chain Together, these three webinars offer a holistic understanding of how intercropping shapes agricultural practice, soil ecosystem functioning, and food processing. They reflect IntercropVALUES’ commitment to...
Intercropping in Flanders: High potential, but still too many barriers
Intercropping is gradually gaining attention in Flanders. Yet, in a feedback meeting organised by the Flemish Agency of Agriculture and Fisheries discussing what can be learned from two years implementing subsidies for legumes and intercrops, it became clear that the...
Consumers Embrace Wheat-Chickpea Flour in French Participatory Cooking trial
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,...
Intercropping with Lentils and Peas in Organic Farming: Lessons from Two Student Internships in France
Within the IntercropVALUES project, two consecutive internships were conducted in 2024 and 2025 with organic farmers in the Maine-et-Loire region (France). Both internships were carried out under the CICS #10, coordinated by the Union of Cuma of Pays de la Loire and...
First results presented in Edinburgh, in the frame of the 3rd annual meeting
Edinburgh was chosen as the host city for the consortium's third annual meeting, which took place from 1 to 3 October 2025. More than 65 researchers and managers gathered to share findings, resolve difficulties and plan for the final year of the project. Two officers...
Lentillons from Champagne: intercropping tradition with cereals in France
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...
Interplay: User Experiences and Implementation Insights in Italy
Interplay is a game designed to develop the skills of adults, with a focus on plant intercropping in agriculture. Developed as part of the Remix project (Horizon 2020), it combines card and board elements with a verification mechanism based on digital modelling. As...
POLICY BRIEF RELEASE: Boosting intercropping in the post 2027 CAP
Intercropping is a powerful innovation that boosts resource efficiency and biodiversity while reducing dependence on synthetic inputs. Projects like LEGUMINOSE and IntercropVALUES show its environmental, economic, and social advantages: it improves yield stability,...
From barriers to identifying solutions: IntercropVALUES moves forward to promote intercropping
Intercropping, an agricultural practice that could help counterbalance the negative effects of agricultural specialisation by re-introducing crop diversity in fields, is currently facing strong resistance in Europe. Indeed, current European agricultural systems are...
Marketing lessons from Scotland: launching of a product coming from intercropping
Product sales are essential for the survival of any food or drink business. Businesses can take different approaches, depending on the product, target market, and ambition. As part of the IntercropVALUES project, the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd...
Overcoming adoption barriers to intercropping: insights from Co-innovation Case Study #2 (Sweden)
On January 29th 2025, the Swedish Agricultural University Partnership Alnarp, along with the Swedish CICS#2 and the project “Bönan till Bordet” held a workshop titled “Hur får vi bönan till bordet?” (“How do we get beans to the table?). Twenty-five participants from...
Intercropping wheat and pea for improved baking quality: more diversity from the field to the bread basket (Germany)
The main aim of the German CICS#5 (Co-innovation Case Study) is to tackle processing barriers and create solutions and knowledge on the cultivation, milling and baking of wheat grown as an intercrop with pea. The German CIC#5 is a partnership between the University of...
Intercropping to suppress weeds and mitigate pest damage: a snapshot of what partners have observed in the field
Another year another (inter-) crop. But the years are so variable. More unpredictable weather affects cultivations, crop development, and harvest. With all these variables, figuring out a blueprint to grow intercropped organic oilseed rape is tricky. A group of...
Citizens discover intercropping at the Municipal Botanical Museum in Milan (Italy)
In the framework of its activities addressed to citizens, last May 17 the Municipal Botanical Museum ‘Aurelia Josz’ in Milan organized a free visit to its garden. On the occasion, the Museum curators invited CREA’s researchers Daniele Cavalli and Luciano Pecetti–who...
Scotland: lessons learned from the launch of a new culinary oil made with intercropped organic oilseed rape
Four years after the launch of ÒR-GANIC cold-pressed organic rapeseed oil, the directors of the company got together to reflect on progress. SAOS, an IntercropVALUES partner, facilitated the discussion. ÒR-GANIC is a Scottish high value culinary oil, made with...