New paper published with some results from the Diversify Project (Designing innovative plant teams for ecosystem resilience and agricultural sustainability)
🌾☘️ We found a roughly 30% yield gain for cereal-legume intercrops across all sites. However this was modulated by a number of factors.
🌾☘️ Our findings allow us to reduce uncertainty about how intercrops will perform in realistic local farm conditions, give guidance for tailoring intercrops to local farming conditions, and provide key goals for further work to integrate intercrops into sustainable farming systems.
Brooker RW, Pakeman RJ, Adam E. Banfield-Zanin JA, Bertelsen I, Bickler C, Fog-Petersen J, George D, Newton AC, Rubiales D, Tavoletti S, Villegas-Fernandez AM, Karley AJ (2024) Positive effects of intercrop yields in farms from across Europe depend on rainfall, crop composition, and management. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 44, 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-024-00968-2
