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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...
Introducing intercropVALUES to Scottish stakeholders
Our project partner SAOS | Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd published last year an article to introduce the project and intercropping to its members and wider audience in Scotland. The newsletter where it appears is printed and sent to approx. 680 co-op...
“How to move to action”, the motto for CICS’ leaders meeting in Kassel (Germany)
Representatives from the 13 Co-Innovation Case Studies (CICS) of IntercropVALUES will be gathering next 23-25 April at the premises of the University of Kassel, in a full-program event hosted by the IntercropVALUES team of this university. This is the second...
A workshop on “Barriers and levers to the adoption of crop associations” at the Agricultural High school of Flamarens (South-West of France)
On Thursday 29th of February 2024, around thirty stakeholders from the agricultural and food sectors of south-west France came together for a multi-actor workshop on the subject of intercropping. The workshop, organised by INRAE and the Chamber of Agriculture as part...
A challenging year in the field at Brandstrup on the island of Lolland (Denmark)
Sustainability in agriculture is high on the EU agenda, and a field of peas and lentils on the Danish Island of Lolland plays an important role in this. Despite a very challenging year, the first peas and lentils have been harvested and now the results will be...
Intercropping wheat and pea for improved baking quality: more diversity from the field to the bread basket in Germany
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,...
Common Agricultural Policy (2023-2027) Year Two: Impacts on Flanders’ Arable Farmers Engaged in Intercropping
On 1 January 2024, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2023-2027 began its second year of implementation. For the Belgian region of Flanders, the CAP Strategic Plan includes benefits for farmers who adopt greener, more sustainable farming techniques and operations....
Intercropping as windshield could prevent water losses through evaporation
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...
The potential of intercropping, accessible to children in an article by the American Science Journal for Kids
In early 2023 Wopke van der Werf and his team had the happy news that their meta-analysis on the productive performance of intercropping had been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, better known by its...