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  • Intercropping
  • The project
    • Our goals
    • Our approach
    • Impact
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    • Related initiatives
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    • Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)
  • Research fields
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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
Fighting monocultures with legumes. Two soil scientists are samling in a field.

New video: Making agriculture more sustainable with intercropping

24 September 20245 December 2023

A European project aims to make agriculture more sustainable and increase food security through legume-cereal intercropping

Categories Press release Tags press release, video

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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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