photo of onions, lettuce and radishes growing in lines next to one another
Boost your garden’s productivity with intercropping! 🌱 Plant fast-growers like radishes or lettuce between slow-growers like broccoli or onions. You’ll harvest early crops while the bigger veggies take their time, making the most of your space and increasing yields. #GardeningTips #Intercropping
Again, some demonstration plots and trials with #legumes, sorghum, maize, cowpea, mucuna, #intercropping, integrated #soilfertility management. Also more soil profiles, and some serious infestation with witchweed in some plots...
Great success for the #RAIZ Project field days in Murehwa 🇿🇼! Congrats to the team for organizing such a very nice event!
We first visited demo plots showing maize 🌽 or sorghum without #fertilizers, with #manure, with both manure and fertilizers, and with or without #intercropping with cowpea.
Event Alert! Workshop on Cereal-Legume Intercropping under #Leguminose_EU Project.
📅 April 28-29, 2026
📍 GCUF, Faisalabad, Pakistan
#HorizonEurope #GCUF #LegumeCereal #Intercropping #SoilHealth #Agriculture #Sustainability #Pakistan @pathanshamina.bsky.social
Finally, our new synthesis paper on plant #biodiversity effects on productivity via pest suppression is online! This shows that crop #diversification e.g. through #intercropping can increase yields via indirect multitrophic interactions, helping reduce #pesticides! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yin, XT., Xiao, CL., Hao, ZH. et al. Intercropping increases soil multifunctionality potentially by increasing the abundance of functional genes: evidence from a long-term field experiment. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 46, 7 (2026).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...
#Intercropping #MicrobialFunctionalGenes
👋 Agroecology-TRANSECT YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@agroecology... provides material to learn on the agronomic, social and political dimensions of #agroecology
Next webinar (Jan.22) is on #intercropping and sustainable #pest management
To register 👉 www.agroecology-transect.net/events/boost...
Some news about our long-term University of Zimbabwe @cirad.bsky.social rainfall manipulation experiment. Just before Christmas, we applied first N topdressing on fertilized treatments, as well as the first heavy rainfall event (100 mm in a day) of the season. #mulch #intercropping #climateextremes
🌱 How could the post-2027 CAP be updated to promote #intercropping in Europe? 🫛
In this video, Boglárka Bozsogi from @organicseurope.bsky.social presents some of the recommendations from our Project.
Also gathered in a policy brief:
intercropvalues.eu/wp-content/u...
youtu.be/bi1drtErmaE?...
👨🌾 👩🌾 Farmers have long always noticed that #intercropping can limit #epidemics. But how does this work and under which conditions?
Listen to Audrey Deheinzelin at INRAE presenting her work: modelling to prevent #fungal diseases.
youtu.be/gGHx2BcBN0M?...
Moreau, D., Ballini, E., Chave, M. et al. Potential of service plants for regulating multiple pests while limiting disservices in agroecosystems. A review. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 38 (2025).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...
#ArthropodPest #AerialPathogen #Intercropping #CoverCrop
Intercropping means better harvests! 🥬 🌱
Planting kohlrabi and lettuce together maximizes space. Fast-growing lettuce provides quick ground cover, suppressing weeds, while slower kohlrabi matures. This diversity boosts soil health and reduces pest pressure. #Intercropping #Sustainable #Gardening
Lentillons from Champagne: #intercropping tradition with cereals!
intercropvalues.eu/news/lentill...
Organic farming in the Maine-et-Loire region (France). Two internships assess how #intercropping could secure lentil and pea production in organic systems and improve local value chains, especially for supplying collective catering.
intercropvalues.eu/news/intercr...
🌾🥙 In France, consumers are embracing wheat–chickpea flour through participatory cooking trials! This innovative blend highlights how intercrops can boost sustainability, nutrition, and flavor #Sustainability #Intercropping
intercropvalues.eu/case-studies...
🌱 #Intercropping in Flanders: High Potential, Many Barriers🌱
Despite growing interest, intercropping in Flanders remains limited. Economic competitiveness is the question.
Find the full article on our website:
intercropvalues.eu/news/intercr...
👉 The #LEGUMINOSE & #IntercropVALUES projects, with contributions from IFOAM Organics Europe, propose a policy brief for the Post-2027 CAP to scale #intercropping with 5 hey recommendations.🌱
📄 Learn more in our dedicated article: www.organicseurope.bio/news/five-wa...
Three sisters intercropping system. Maize (blue), beans (red), and squash (yellow) are grown together. Factors making the system more robust and higher yielding than monocropping are listed in boxes.
#Intercropping & #CropRotation are ancient #agricultural practices that increase yield & #DiseaseResistance in #crops. This Essay discusses the role of plant-derived metabolites & microbes in these systems and how they can contribute to #SustainableAgriculture @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4op7k6W
Erosion is a big issue in Rwanda 🇷🇼. We visited a trial @canallsproject.bsky.social studying the impact of Fanya juu terraces, combining trenches, mounts and fodder grasses (+Grevillea robusta here) to reduce #erosion in cassava cropping systems, #intercropping with legumes, and manure addition.
A great day in the field in Rwanda 🇷🇼 visiting the Kayonza research station and on-farm experiments, especially on cassava-maize #intercropping @canallsproject.bsky.social @oneacrefund.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social
Three sisters intercropping system. Maize (blue), beans (red), and squash (yellow) are grown together. Factors making the system more robust and higher yielding than monocropping are listed in boxes.
#Intercropping & #CropRotation are ancient #agricultural practices that increase yield & #DiseaseResistance in #crops. This Essay discusses the role of plant-derived metabolites & microbes in these systems and how they can contribute to #SustainableAgriculture @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4op7k6W
Three sisters intercropping system. Maize (blue), beans (red), and squash (yellow) are grown together. Factors making the system more robust and higher yielding than monocropping are listed in boxes.
#Intercropping & #CropRotation are ancient #agricultural practices that increase yield & #DiseaseResistance in #crops. This Essay discusses the role of plant-derived metabolites & microbes in these systems and how they can contribute to #SustainableAgriculture @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4op7k6W
#Sustainable management of coastal sandy #soil for #intercropping flower crops with #coconut in #India
To read this new article in JHSB, visit:
Annual meeting of the IntercropVALUES Horizon Project in Edinburgh 🏴. Great opportunity to share progress made in the different workpackages, meet colleagues and plan work for the coming year. #intercropping
Helping Farmers Grow Their Way Out of Poverty: The One Acre Fund Story
Full Story: indiawest.com/helping-farm...
#OneAcreFund #SmallholderFarmers #ClimateResilience #SustainableAgriculture #FoodSecurity #SoilConservation #TreePlanting #Intercropping #MarketAccess #RuralDevelopment #Environment
Wichtige Forschung zur Mischkultur von #Hülsenfrüchten und #Getreide.
Im Thread ein paar Einblicke ins EU-Projekt #LEGUMINOSE.
Mit dabei sind übrigens Kolleg:innen der @unihannover.bsky.social.
#LegumeResearch #Intercropping #AgroBiodiversity
Monday was our #GBI Poster-Party-Day at #DBG2025: 2 times #RootWayS (BMBF) project with Jiangyuzhuo Wang's #subsoil labeling and Yihan Pu's mesh tubes show #intercropping benefit. Yuxuan Zhang of #BNI-2030 (@bmleh.de) added #nitrification inhibition & Ningkang Sun #AMF driven P mobilization on top 👏
His father, of course, was the famed agriculturist J.J. Machobane who developed a successful #intercropping system that people still utilize in #Lesotho.
In short, the #Machobane family history is the history of #independence in Lesotho.
May he rest in power.
