DIVERSify

Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability

Guides & Toolboxes

InfoHub

Go to the DIVERSify Guide for Farmers and Agronomists for practical information on intercropping agronomy, resilience and ecosystem service provision, on-farm experiences and innovations. Explore how and why to use plant teams

CropMIXER

Go to the DIVERSify Decision Support Tool to examine plant team performance in different crop combinations, management options and climatic regions. Determine what could work for you specifically

Policy Toolbox

Go to the DIVERSify Toolbox for Policy Makers to source the evidence of how intercropping can contribute towards different policy target areas. Consider the wider benefits of using plant teams

The DIVERSify project

Practice Abstracts

Scientific Publications

GROWING BEYOND MONOCULTURE
video web series

Highlights from Plot Trials

DIVERSify project partners conducted plot trials across a range of pedo-climatic zones in Europe. A comprehensive database of crop traits in monocultures and intercrops has been assembled and will be available via the project’s Zenodo community. The results from the trials are synthesised in three key reports on performance of plant teams (D2.10), key mechanisms promoting performance (D2.4) and the ecological approach for crop improvement (D2.5). DIVERSiplotter allows for data visualisation including comparisons to explore the effects of intercropping versus monoculture for key traits

DIVERSiplotter presents an engaging expandable platform to allow users to explore and interact with intercropping field trial data. It incorporates data from 94 traits, 11 species, 48 varieties across three plant teams and seven trial sites across Europe

Highlights from Models

The codes of the Minimalist Mixture Model – M³ – and a set of sample input and output files are available directly on Zenodo

Highlights from Field-scale Trials

DIVERSify project partners worked to conduct in-field validation of plant team performance at research platforms in Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Lebanon and Morocco. In these trials, agronomic and environmental factors were tested at a field-scale. On-farm trials were also conducted in collaboration with a network of participatory farmers across Europe, and in Kenya. A meta-analysis (D5.5) found that plant teams generated overall gains in terms of crop productivity but that their composition influences the associated benefits. Consultation with stakeholder networks also fed into the identification of key barriers to plant team uptake (D4.5) and socioeconomic factors affecting adoption (D1.2)

Participatory Farmer case studies – coming soon