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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
  • Resources
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Spain

A close-up of a mix of cereal and legume seeds, showing a variety of colours and textures.

Intercropping in Spain: Insights from Spanish farmers

17 March 202513 March 2025

How are Spanish farmers adopting intercropping? Learn about their experiences, key challenges, and why they see potential in this sustainable practice.

Categories Article Tags article, Spain
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
Photo from the LEGUMINOSE project meeting in Madrid

LEGUMINOSE project meeting in Spain

19 March 202411 March 2024

We recently met in Spain to discuss our progress. Let’s recap our meeting.

Categories Event Tags event, Spain
Look over a man's shoulder, holding a piece of paper

Opportunities and barriers of legume-cereal intercropping in Spain

5 January 202414 September 2023

Spanish farmers and researchers discussed the possibilities of growing different crops in the same land plot simultaneously.

Categories Event Tags event, Spain, stakeholders, workshop

Intercropping: la asociación de cultivos que puede revolucionar el campo

12 February 202415 February 2023

Our Spanish partners at UPA and CSIC summarise the goals and approach of LEGUMINOSE in a press release.

Categories Press release Tags press release, Spain

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Recent Posts

  • What soil needs from us: Lessons from an European soil health conference 2 July 2025
  • “Is it possible mix the ingredients in the field rather than in the kitchen?”: Tom Sizmur shares his vision for the future of agriculture 26 May 2025
  • “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

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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