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Leguminose
Leguminose
  • Intercropping
  • The project
    • Our goals
    • Our approach
    • Impact
    • Partner organisations
    • Related initiatives
    • People
    • Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)
  • Research fields
    • Asendorf, DE
    • Cesa Estate, IT
    • Foulum, DK
    • Madrid, ES
    • Osiny, PL
    • Reading, UK
    • Šumperk, CZ
  • News and events
  • Resources
  • Contact

field visit

Two researchers monitoring crop pests on a field in Spain.

Monitoring crop pests in intercropped fields

13 March 20254 April 2024

What effect does intercropping have on pests and diseases? We are conducting thorough analyses to find out.

Categories News Tags article, field visit, Spain
Aerial view of cultivated agricultural fields in summer

Increasing awareness for and interest in intercropping in the UK

5 January 20241 September 2023

The UK Sustainable Farming Incentive is supporting intercropping. A farm walk explored benefits and barriers towards its wider adoption.

Categories Event Tags article, event, field visit, UK
Photo from the stakeholder workshop on intercropping in Poland

Opportunities and barriers of legume-cereal intercropping in Poland

5 January 20244 August 2023

What benefits does legume-cereal intercropping offer? And what are potential barriers to its adoption? We recently explored these questions in a workshop with stakeholders in Poland.

Categories Event Tags event, field visit, Poland, stakeholders, workshop
A Person Wearing Yellow Boots while Standing on Brown Field

Farm walk and workshop on intercropping in Oxfordshire, UK

12 February 202425 May 2023

Join us for a workshop and farm walk at Ben Adams’ cereal farm to learn more about cereal-legume intercropping.

Categories Event Tags event, field visit, UK
Photo of grain and blue skye

Learn about best practices for growing legumes at Agritec´s Legumes Field Day

12 February 202422 May 2023

The upcoming event will provie insights into legumes growing practices, drawing on experience from various field trials with pea, faba bean, soybean and lupin.

Categories Event Tags Czech Republic, event, field visit

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Recent Posts

  • “We need demonstration farms that act as positive examples for other farmers”: Norman Gentsch on spreading intercropping knowledge 21 April 2025
  • “Intercropping gives us an opportunity to work with nature”: Jerry Alford on sustainable farming 24 March 2025
  • Intercropping in Spain: Insights from Spanish farmers 13 March 2025
  • Intercropping in the UK: Field trial results 27 February 2025
  • “Coordinating research across Europe is an exciting challenge”: Magdalena Frąc on LEGUMINOSE 24 February 2025

The LEGUMINOSE project will provide science-based, farmer-led, and economically viable systems and techniques for legume-based intercropping.

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European Union

This work has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant numbers 10057156 and 10039837] to the Soil Association and the University of Reading.

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