🌾🥙 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

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🌱 #Intercropping in Flanders: High Potential, Many Barriers🌱

Despite growing interest, intercropping in Flanders remains limited. Economic competitiveness is the question.
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Barriers to #intercropping have been identified: how to move forward?
Regular meetings take place among CoInnovation Case Study leaders to share solutions implemented in different contexts.
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#Intercropping to suppress #weeds and mitigate #pest damage: a snapshot of what partners have observed in the field
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#Intercropping in #Sweden: what are the barriers?
25 participants, 14 organizations (research, advisory services, regional government, civil society, food business actors and farming) met in Alnarp and ranked these (from most to least critical):

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Happy World Environment Day! 🌱 #intercropping

We are committed to improving the #environmental health of our agricultural systems by:
🌿 improving ecosystem functioning,
🪱 increasing resource efficiency,
🌷 reducing dependence on synthetic inputs,
🐝 promoting sustainable agricultural practices.

#Wheat 🌾 and #pea 🫛 . Would you like to know what happens when these two crops are #intercropped and end up on our tables in the form of bread 🍞 ?
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Pictures by Odette Weedon

International Day for Biological #Diversity: learn how #intercropping can enhance #biodiversity by:
👉 increasing the complexity of the ecosystem,
👉 providing diverse habitats and food sources,
👉 promoting beneficial interactions between plants & organisms.
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It´s World Bee Day 🐝: in agriculture, bees' main contribution is pollination, facilitating the reproduction of many plants and improving the quantity and quality of fruits.
Intercropping benefits bees by offering a greater diversity of flowers, prolonging access to nectar and pollen

Farmers agree that #intercropping has the potential to become a relevant part of the toolbox:
👉to meet political goals,
👉to enhance resilience
👉and to adapt to climate change on their farms.
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