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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
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sampling

Researcher taking samples at a field site. Overlaid text reads "Digging deep into sustainable farming"

What does sustainable agriculture research look like?

27 February 2024

Across Europe, our scientists are digging deep into the soil to explore the potential of intercropping for fostering a more sustainable agriculture. Learn more about the samples they are taking and what they are trying to find out.

Categories News Tags field work, sampling, video
Sampling tool on field

Digging deep: Sampling European soils to explore the benefits of intercropping

12 February 202414 July 2023

What are the benefits of intercropping for the soil and the rhizosphere (the area surrounding the plant roots)? To answer this question, we embarked on a soil and plant root … Read more

Categories News Tags field work, sampling

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Recent Posts

  • Intercropping in the UK: From research fields to on-farm living labs 13 October 2025
  • Intercropping in Germany: From muddy fields to protein-rich harvests 24 September 2025
  • Legume-cereal intercropping in practice: Lessons from a small organic farm in Italy 9 September 2025
  • Intercropping in Spain: Testing legume-cereal mixes in challenging conditions 26 August 2025
  • Intercropping summer school in Pakistan: Training the next generation in sustainable agriculture 14 July 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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