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Identifiying lock-ins and barriers to intercropping through the value chain
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...
Is Intercropping Feasible in Real-World Situations? Questions from Curios Swedish Food System Stakeholders
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...
Learning about intercropping as a means to sustainable agriculture at Wageningen University
The project IntercropVALUES aims to exploit the benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, and environmentally friendly cropping systems that are acceptable to farmers and actors across the agri-food chain. To...
Press Release #3: IntercropVALUES partners met in Louvain-La-Neuve for annual meeting
Last week, members of the 25 entities involved in the project IntercropVALUES met in Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) for their second annual consortium meeting. Their goal was, on the one hand, to discuss all the work done since the project started, two years ago. In...
University of Bonn: Pioneering the Future intercropping in the IntercropVALUES Project
As global challenges like climate change and food security intensify, the need for innovative, resilient, and sustainable farming methods has never been more critical. The University of Bonn plays a pivotal role in achieving the objectives of the IntercropVALUES...
Two new PhD theses on intercropping
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...
Advances in a maize/soybean intercropping experiment conducted by the China Agricultural University
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...
POLICY BRIEF RELEASE. Desiging “intercrops friendly” policies: lessons from the analysis of barriers in Europe
Growing multiple crops simultaneously on the same field, the so-called “intercropping” practice has almost disappeared from our European agricultural landscapes, despite its numerous environmental, economic, and nutritional benefits. The IntercropVALUES project, which...
Learning from the experience of seven organic farms practicing intercropping in Italy
Intercropping can offer many potential advantages over single stand cropping systems when applied in organic farming: it optimizes the management of resources, increases agricultural biodiversity, allows better weed control, preserves the fertility of the soil and...
“It´s in the soil”: IntercropVALUES tells its own “soil story” in the French digital magazine from the Eïwa cooperatives
Lionel Alletto, researcher at INRAE and leader of IntercorpVALUES Co-Innovation Case Study 4, has recently participated in a local tv/online emission called (in French) C dans l’ sol (“It’s in the soil”). Yves Ferrier, from the Chamber of Agriculture and co-leader of...
Innovative intercroppers / OR crops co-operating VIDEO RELEASE
Intercropping – growing a few crops at the same time – is a great idea. If you grow barley and peas, for example, the barley gets drip-fed ‘free’ nitrogen from the bean crop, the pea gets a scaffold to support its growth, and pollinating insects get a food source from...
VIDEO RELEASE: Reducing herbicide use by introducing legume intercropping in sugarcane in La Réunion (France)
IntercropVALUES project is present on Reunion Island through the involvement of two partners: eRcane and CIRAD. As part of their participation in the project, and the activities they develop in Co-Innovation Case Study (CICS) 7, they are working with 4 farmers to...
2nd meeting of the EU CAP Network Focus Group on crops associations with a high involvement of IntercropVALUES members
The second meeting of the Focus groups 'Crop associations including Milpa and protein crops', took place last May 29-30 in Toulouse, France, with a strong involvement of the IntercropVALUES project team. Focus group meetings are facilitated by the Support Facility...
Cultivating collaboration to promote sustainable intercropping systems for agrifood value chain in Mozambique
The IntercropVALUES research project is being implemented in Mozambique since November 2023 by the University Eduardo Mondlane in collaboration with CIRAD. The case study of Mozambique is one of the 13 Co-Innovation Case Studies (CICS) under implementation in 15...
New release: NEWSLETTER N1: 18 months of intercropping!
18 months of the IntercropVALUES Project have gone by. Over these months partners have been busy setting up the work: organizing the stakeholders groups around the 13 co-innovation Case studies, agreeing on the activities, defining the protocols for the experiments to...
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