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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
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Graphic announcing the "Understanding Contemporary Plant-Soil Feedback in Intercropping" summer school in Florence, Italy in May 2026.

Summer school on soil health and intercropping in Florence, Italy: Applications open

20 January 202620 January 2026

Applications are open for the LEGUMINOSE summer school on soil health and intercropping, taking place in Florence, Italy in May 2026.

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Virginia Ruspolini video thumbnail

Legume-cereal intercropping in practice: Lessons from a small organic farm in Italy

9 September 2025

A farmer, a beekeeper, a believer in biodiversity: Virginia Ruspolini shows how intercropping works on her small organic farm in Umbria, Italy.

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Call for abstracts for soil science conference

5 January 202422 November 2023

The Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences, taking place in Florence, Italy from May 19-21, 2024, presents an exciting opportunity for soil scientists. Submit your abstract by January 15, 2024.

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Speaker at LEGUMINOSE workshop

Opportunities and barriers of legume-cereal intercropping in Italy

5 January 202416 October 2023

Our stakeholder workshop series continues: Last month, we discussed opportunities and barriers of legume-cereal intercropping with Italian stakeholders.

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La pratica della consociazione per un’agricoltura sostenibile

12 February 202415 February 2023

Our Italian partners at UNIFI summarise the goals and approach of LEGUMINOSE in a press release.

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Recent Posts

  • Summer school on soil health and intercropping in Florence, Italy: Applications open 20 January 2026
  • How food and drink companies support regenerative farming 12 January 2026
  • Listening to the soil and the farmers: Shamina Imran Pathan on intercropping and soil biodiversity 5 January 2026
  • Intercropping in semiarid environments: Lessons from the iCROP field experiment in Spain 15 December 2025
  • Intercropping in the Czech Republic: Building trust, analysing data, and weathering the seasons 2 December 2025

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

Funded by the
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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