Palestinian organic farmers face difficulties in producing organic vegetables without pest damage. CORE set up farm demonstration trials to show how plant teams innovations could assist farmers in addressing some of these challenges. Three different combinations of vegetable and herb crops were planted and monitored to demonstrate the potential for better control of insect pests […]
How can we bring research of sustainable agricultural practice into commercial farming? Where can we find farmers ready to do that? How can we create awareness of sustainable farming practices in the public and in consumers? And where do I want to place myself in this chain of knowledge and practice? These and other questions […]
Alison Karley, DIVERSify Project coordinator and Agroecologist at The James Hutton Institute, UK, reflects on the Intercropping for Sustainability conference In the beginning…When we started planning the ‘Intercropping for Sustainability’ conference, 18 months before it was due to be held in January 2021 in Reading, we were blissfully ignorant of the dramatic change to our […]
The DIVERSify and ReMIX projects joined forces with the Association of Applied Biologists to hold a three-day virtual conference on ‘Intercropping for Sustainability’ on 18th-20th January 2021. The meeting attracted over 150 delegates from research and farming in countries across Europe and beyond. The three days of the conference were organised into nine talk sessions […]
The Intercropping for Sustainability conference will be happening online between the 18th and 20th of January 2021. The conference, organised by the DIVERSify and ReMIX H2020 projects as well as the Association of Applied Biologists (UK), will focus on sharing all the latest research on developing and improving intercropping practices to diversify crop systems. Sessions […]
Carlota Vaz Patto gives an overview of her experiences working with Fertiprado and local farmers in Portugal to identify the advantages of using biodiverse forage mixtures in a Mediterranean climatic and cultural context Through a participatory approach involving stakeholder consultation and experimentation/validation of project outcomes, my team at ITQB NOVA has been supporting the wider […]
We have a bonus post from Dr Jennifer Banfield-Zanin of Stockbridge Technology Centre (North Yorkshire) this month. It’s all about the challenges of establishing a white clover living mulch and balancing the health of the clover against its competitiveness with the cash crop. Why the interest in living mulch? There is growing interest in the […]
Emily Trivett from LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) introduces us to the Speak Out Toolkit in this month’s blog… Communication is part of a researcher’s everyday life. Giving talks, writing papers and proposals, communicating with a wide range of audiences, and most of all, learning and educating others. We believe that regardless of field, or […]
Nyabeda village farmers, Siaya County, KenyaThere is no better place for testing and demonstrating farmer innovations with plant teams than Nyabeda village in Siaya County – located in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region. After all, the predominantly maize (Zea mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) growing Nyabeda villagers have been at the heart of various agroforestry […]
Update 06/07/2020: We are committed to running this conference on the 20th – 21st January 2021. Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated regulations and travel guidance, we are flexible about the format of the event (meet in person, virtually or a hybrid of the two). We will confirm the final format […]