by INI | Jul 17, 2025 | Case Studies, CICS01, CICS010, CICS02, CICS03, CICS04, CICS05, CICS06, CICS07, CICS08, CICS09, CICS11, CICS12, CICS13, News
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...
by INI | Jun 9, 2025 | Case Studies, CICS02, News
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...
by INI | May 30, 2025 | Case Studies, CICS03, News
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...
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 | Nov 7, 2024 | Case Studies, News
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...
