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¡Diversidad en el tiempo y el espacio! Esa es una pieza fundamental del rompecabezas de la agroecología. Aquí, debajo de la yuca, la lechuga puede disfrutar de algunas semanas de luz solar directa y el agricultor obtiene una cosecha adicional de la misma parcela de tierra, ¡y no tiene que desmalezar tanto!

Diversity in time and space! That is a fundamental piece of the agroecology puzzle. Here, underneath the cassava (yuca), lettuce can enjoy some weeks of direct sunlight and the farmer gets an extra harvest from the same plot of land, and they don’t have to weed as much!

#intercropping #agroecologia #agroecology #campesinoacampesino #soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #diversity

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

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

#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream

by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025

"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.

"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."

#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
#Intercropping #Polyculture #Resiliency #FoodSystems #ClimateChangeFarming

#RegenerativeAgriculture has its roots in #Indigenous farming

Strategic Intelligence
Fri, October 10, 2025

Excerpt: "While regenerative agriculture is growing in business settings as a method of reducing agricultural impact, and as an emissions reduction method, indigenous farmers have been responding to environmental stimuli and promoting non-intensive farming methods for millennia. Indigenous groups and farmers are the best guardians of the world’s #ecosystems."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/regenerative-agriculture-roots-indigenous-farming-142900539.html

#SolarPunkSunday #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Agroforestry #Intercropping #Polyculture

#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 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.

Paper of the week - week 42:

Bančič et al. 2021

Modeling Illustrates That Genomic Selection Provides New Opportunities for Intercrop Breeding

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.605172/full

#benediktspapersoftheweek #CropDiversification #intercropping #PlantBreeding

Paper of the week - week 36:

Marin et al. 2025:

Contrasting Performances of Modern and Landrace Cultivars in Wheat Mixtures and Wheat-Legume Intercrops in Organic and Low Input Conditions

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10681-024-03456-6

#benediktspapersoftheweek #wheat #landrace #intercropping #organic #research #agronomy

📗 'Effects of the #Rhizosphere microbial community in interspecific #Intercropping of rice on the resistance against rice blast' - an article from the Journal of #SouthernAgriculture on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=1bc5d884-fdd9-4e8c-866f-502dcdd87731

#PlantPathology #RiceResearch #PlantMicrobiome

Today I met Isaac, a passionate #bananaFarming trainer. He grows bananas and beans on the same land—true #intercropping innovation! 🌱 I’m excited to connect and learn more #sustainableFarming skills from him. Let’s keep supporting #youthInAgriculture and building strong #ecoProjects together! 🍌🌾 #FarmSmart #AgroInnovation #EcoYouthsNetwork #ClimateSmartFarming #UgandaFarming #growtogether

This was Isaac taking the selfie.. and the lady is called Deborah.. working together with Him

Today I met Isaac, a passionate #bananaFarming trainer. He grows bananas and beans on the same land—true #intercropping innovation! 🌱 I’m excited to connect and learn more #sustainableFarming skills from him. Let’s keep supporting #youthInAgriculture and building strong #ecoProjects together! 🍌🌾 #FarmSmart #AgroInnovation #EcoYouthsNetwork #ClimateSmartFarming #UgandaFarming #growtogether

Isaac took a selfie of me and his fellow. Deborah

Last week, we finished marking and georeferencing the plots for the measurements with the Litéral device in our practice-scale barley / soybean strip cropping experiment at Strickhof in Uitikon (ZH, CH). The barley / soybean strip cropping experiment constitutes the practice-scale counterpart to the small plot barley / soybean border effect experiment on our research station in Eschikon (ZH, CH) 🌾 🌱 🔬

#plantscience #agriculturalscience #stripcropping #intercropping #fieldexperiment

The corners of the rectangular Litéral plots that are distributed in a grid throughout the experimental field were marked with short orange plastic sticks and georeferenced using a GPS device.

The soybean plants in the first few rows at the southern strip borders next to winter barley are visibly smaller than the soybean plants more in the interior of the soybean strips.

About two months ago, we sowed the soybean in our barley / soybean border effect experiment. Sowing the soybean in between the standing barley was quite tricky, but in the meantime, the soybean plants have emerged, and we are busy collecting data about the interaction between the two crop species. 🌱 🌾

#plantscience #agriculturalscience #stripcropping #intercropping #fieldexperiment

Before sowing the soybean, the soil was tilled with a 52 year-old walk-behind rotary cultivator powered by a two-stroke petrol engine.

Most of the soybean was then sown using our self-propelled plot sowing machine.

With the plot sowing machine, we always sowed three rows of soybean at a time.

Last, the parts of the soybean plots that could not be sown with the self-propelled plot sowing machine were sown with a small mechanical sowing machine pushed by a person that can sow only one row at a time.

【💡High Cited 】
#CropDiversityExperiment: towards a mechanistic understanding of the benefits of species diversity in annual crop systems

Whether #Biodiversity benefits hold for #AnnualCropSystems & crop #Mixtures achieved transgressive overyielding❓

#Intercropping

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad016

Direct and indirect mechanisms supporting the yield benefits of mixtures over monocultures identified in the Crop Diversity Experiment.

Radishes: the ultimate intercropping MVP! 🌶️ Fast-growing & shallow-rooted, they fit perfectly between slower crops. Harvest early, aerate soil, and suppress weeds – boosting overall garden health & yield! #gardening #intercropping #radishes

Hello, my name is Benedikt Haug, and I am a researcher at the #PlantBreeding group of #WageningenUniversity. I will post here regularly on my work in breeding for biodiverse and resilient cropping systems, such as mixed cropping, strip cropping, agroforestry and agrivoltaics.

My main interests are in the role of the #PlantGenotype and its #Holobiont in...

#PlantBreeding #Agronomy #Agroecology #CropDiversification #Genetics #PlantPlantInteraction #PlantSoilInteraction #PlantMicrobiomeInteraction #NicheComplementarity #PlantCompetition #Facilitation #PlantCommunityEcology #RegenerativeAgriculture #OrganicAgriculture #MixedCropping #Intercropping #StripCropping #Agroforestry #Agrivoltaics

#JustOut A very nice first #openaccess paper of Illiana Kwenda, MPhil student at University of Zimbabwe 👏 !

Combining two years of on-farm experiments & modeling with the STICS soil-crop model, we showed that land productivity benefits of maize-cowpea #intercropping can be maintained in conditions of high water and nitrogen stress

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2025.109890

Wheat & Soybean Team-Up: 🌾+🌱
Our new study shows:
✔️ #Intercropping saves land & increases protein yield
✔️ Earlier sowing can optimize yields
The results are based on field trials and model simulations under different climate scenarios.
Published in Field Crops Research – a fascinating step towards the future of agriculture! 🌍
🔗 Read more: https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/FPD/Mischanbau-Modellierung.aspx
#SustainableFarming #Research #Intercropping #FutureAgriculture

Wheat harvest in a field with soya and wheat in mixed cultivation
Photo: Christoph Möller / ZALF

Why stick to plain fields? 🌾🌱🌾🌱
Our field study in Eastern Brandenburg (2021–2023) provides initial insights: Strip cropping may support beneficial insects 🐞 and boost biodiversity. Read more:
https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/PB2/Vielfalt_auf_dem_Feld.aspx
#Biodiversity #Agriculture #Research #Intercropping

#intercropping

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