Tag: Intercropping

Are you a farmer who is already using, or interested in experimenting with intercropping?

Help Innovative Farmers gain a better understanding of why intercropping is not more common, and what the barriers are to greater use of it in farming systems.

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Supply Chain Perspectives on Breeding for Legume–Cereal Intercrops

The widespread adoption of intercroping will only succeed through the collaboration of all supply chain actors, breeding approaches that take into account the complexity of the supply chains, and implementation of diversification strategies in every process from field to fork.

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Intercropping to boost agroecology in European Agriculture

This event is a joint effort of the ReMIX and DIVERSify projects to boost the adoption of intercropping and delivery of its ecosystem services in Europe. The event is a perfect opportunity to discuss how…
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Growing Beyond Monoculture

Final episode in the DIVERSify web series goes live https://vimeo.com/491073274 As part of the EU Horizon 2020 research project DIVERSify, researchers have been working on investigating the viability of species mixture cropping as an alternative…
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Troubleshooting the practical challenges of intercropping

Intercropping offers promising opportunities to improve sustainability, reduce pest and disease burden, and enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to stresses such as climate change and market pressures. There are practical challenges, however, in growing,…
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ORFC Global highlights

As the dust settles on the huge global phenomenon that was the 12th Oxford Real Farming Conference we highlight on some of the sessions ORC were involved with (directly or indirectly). All sessions were recorded…
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