Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries

Project Information

IntercropValuES

Grant agreement ID: 101081973

DOI

10.3030/101081973

EC signature date 11 October 2022

Start date 1 November 2022

End date 31 October 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 7 419 463,75

EU contribution

€ 7 419 463,75

Coordinated by

CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

C, D & E Plan

A strategic document presenting the procedure and tools for communication activities, as well as dissemination and exploitation of the projects’ resultsTasks: T7.1 & T7.5Partners: CIRAD, IFOAM EU

First Policy Brief as Policy recommendations for EU and regional authorities and legislators

Publication of 1 Policy Brief comprising the first key results of the project as Policy recommendations for EU and regional authorities and legislators.Task: T7.3Partners: all are potential contributors

Common protocols for on-farm and on-station field experiments

Document presenting the common protocols elaborated for on-farm and on-station field experiments in order to plan the experimental work and the meta-analysis of the results obtained in the projectTask: T2.1Partners: SLU, CREA, CIRAD, UBonn, AUTH, SRUC, BOU, CUA, INRAE, RUC, UCL, KULeuven, WU, UNSFA, INTIA, FiBL

Compilation of lock-ins, encompassing the whole value-chain and its actors

Report on the results highlighting lock-ins identified and reasons associated, encompassing the whole value-chain and its actorsTask: T6.1Partners: INRAE and all case studies responsibles

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project Website to promote and disseminate the project’s activities and outcomes

Online launch of the IntercropValuES Project Website. The website will aim to promote and disseminate the project’s activities and outcomesTasks: T7.1 & T7.2Partner: CIRAD

Set of 8 Practice Abstracts as recommendations for end-users under the EIP-Agri format.

First batch of 8 Practice Abstracts as recommendations for end-users which will be published under the EIP-Agri formatTask: T7.3Partners: all are potential contributors

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

European Journal of Agronomy

Author(s): Wallach, Daniel; Kim, Kwang; Hyun, Shinwoo; Buis, Samuel; Thorburn, Peter; Mielenz, Henrike; Seidel, Sabine; Alderman, Phillip; Dumont, Benjamin; Fallah, Mohammad; Hoogenboom, Gerrit; Justes, Eric; Kersebaum, Kurt-Christian; Launay, Marie; Leolini, Luisa; Mehmood, Muhammad; Moriondo, Marco; Jing, Qi; Qian, Budong; Susanne, Schulz; Seserman, Diana-Maria; Shelia, Vakhtang; Weihermüller, Lutz; Palosuo, Taru
Published in: European Journal of Agronomy, 2025, ISSN 1161-0301
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.34734/FZJ-2025-02421

European Journal of Agronomy

Author(s): Lebreton, Pierre; Bedoussac, Laurent; Bonnet, Catherine; Journet, Etienne-Pascal; Justes, Eric; Colbach, Nathalie
Published in: European Journal of Agronomy, 2024, ISSN 1161-0301
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.EJA.2024.127266

A workflow for processing global datasets: application to intercropping

Author(s): Mahmoud R, Casadebaig P, Hilgert N, Gaudio N
Published in: Peer Community Journal, section Mathematical and Computational Biology, 2024, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community Journal
DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.389

Cereal-legume intercropping to stabilise yields in tropical regions: evaluation of the STICS soil-crop model.

Author(s): de Freitas, Mathilde; Couëdel, Antoine; Falconnier, Gatien; Christina, Mathias; Balde, Alpha; Affholder, François; Traore, Amadou; Ganeme, Aminata; Adam, Myriam; Senghor, Yolande; Sow, Sidy; Justes, Eric
Published in: Innovations Agronomiques, 2025, ISSN 1958-5853
Publisher: INRAE
DOI: 10.17180/CIAG-2025-VOL99-ART07-GB

Interspecies diversity in morphological responses to water stress: Study on a panel of weed and crop species

Author(s): Quentin Cournault, Nathalie Colbach, Hugues Busset, Annick Matejicek, Pauline Souche-Suchovsky, Marion Prudent, Delphine Moreau
Published in: Environmental and Experimental Botany, Issue 224, 2024, ISSN 0098-8472
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVEXPBOT.2024.105825

Motifs de semis, traits et proportions d'espèces pour la gestion agroécologique des adventices dans les associations légumineuse-céréale.

Author(s): Lebreton, Pierre; Baquet, Aurélie; Bedoussac, Laurent; Bonnet, Catherine; Journet, Etienne-Pascal; Justes, Eric; Colbach, Nathalie
Published in: Innovations Agronomiques, 2025, ISSN 1958-5853
Publisher: INRAE
DOI: 10.17180/CIAG-2025-VOL101-ART07

Modeling soil‑plant functioning of intercrops using comprehensive and generic formalisms implemented in the STICS model.

Author(s): Vézy R., Munz S., Gaudio N., Launay M., Lecharpentier P., Ripoche D., Justes E.
Published in: Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023, ISSN 1773-0155
Publisher: © L’Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE)
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-023-00917-5

Science of the Total Environment

Author(s): J, Seidel. S.; Ahmadi, S. H.; Weihermüller, Lutz; Couedel, A.; Lopez, G.; Behrend, D.; Kamali, B.; Gaiser, T.; Hernández-Ochoa, I. M.
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, 2024, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.34734/FZJ-2024-05847

Effect of crop management and climatic factors on weed control in sugarcane intercropping systems

Author(s): Soule Mathilde, Mansuy Alizé, Chetty Julien, Auzoux Sandrine, Viaud Pauline, Schwartz Marion, Ripoche Aude, Heuclin Benjamin, Christina Mathias
Published in: Field Crops Research, 2024, ISSN 0378-4290
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109234

Why is there so much variability in crop multi-model studies?

Author(s): Daniel Wallach, Taru Palosuo, Henrike Mielenz, Samuel Buis, Peter Thorburn, Senthold Asseng, Benjamin Dumont, Roberto Ferrise, Sebastian Gayler, Afshin Ghahramani, Matthew Tom Harrison, Zvi Hochman, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Mingxia Huang, Qi Jing, Eric Justes, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Marie Launay, Elisabet Lewan, Ke Liu, Qunying Luo, Fasil Mequanint, Claas Nendel, Gloria Padovan, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Pullens, Budong Qian, Diana-Maria Seserman, Vakhtang Shelia, Amir Souissi, Xenia Specka, Jing Wang, Tobias K.D. Weber, Lutz Weihermüller, Sabine J. Seidel
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 372, 2025, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2025.110697

Identification d'idéotypes variétaux pour la gestion des adventices : Exemple du pois associé au blé.

Author(s): Colbach, Nathalie; Burstin, Judith; Moreau, Delphine
Published in: Innovations agronomiques, 2025, ISSN 1958-5853
Publisher: INRAE
DOI: 10.17180/CIAG-2025-VOL101-ART06

Early belowground interactions in lupin–wheat intercropping assessed by a simple root phenotyping approach

Author(s): Roberta Rossi; Daniele Cavalli; Tommaso Notario; Luciano Pecetti
Published in: Plant and Soil, 2025, ISSN 1573-5036
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S11104-025-07693-Z

Root growth and belowground interactions in spring wheat - faba bean intercrops

Author(s): Sofia Hadir; Thomas F. Döring; Eric Justes; Dereje T. Demie; Madhuri Paul; Nicole Legner; Roman Kemper; Thomas Gaiser; Odette Weedon; Frank Ewert; Sabine J. Seidel
Published in: Plant and Soil, 2023, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S11104-024-06742-3

Environmental Modelling and Software

Author(s): Wallach, Daniel; Buis, Samuel; Seserman, Diana-Maria; Palosuo, Taru; Thorburn, Peter; Mielenz, Henrike; Justes, Eric; Kersebaum, Kurt-Christian; Dumont, Benjamin; Launay, Marie; Seidel, Sabine
Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software, 2023, ISSN 1364-8152
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.26.564162

Resource acquisition and interactions in spring wheat/faba bean intercropping under diverse environments

Author(s): Dereje T. Demie, Sabine J. Seidel, Daniel Wallach, Thomas F. Döring, Frank Ewert, Thomas Gaiser, Madhuri Paul, Ixchel M. Hernández-Ochoa
Published in: Field Crops Research, Issue 325, 2025, ISSN 0378-4290
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FCR.2025.109817

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Author(s): Demie, Dereje; Wallach, Daniel; Döring, Thomas; Ewert, Frank; Gaiser, Thomas; Hadir, Sofia; Krauss, Gunther; Paul, Madhuri; Hernández-Ochoa, Ixchel; Vezy, Rémi; Seidel, Sabine
Published in: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2025, ISSN 0167-8809
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.AGEE.2024.109302

Conference proceedings (8)

Which pea traits for agroecological weed management in pea-wheat intercrops.

Author(s): Colbach, N.,Burstin, J., and Moreau, D.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: INRAE

Adapting FLORSYS for climate change: implementing plant-plant competition for water in a 3D mechanistic model for predicting future crop/weed interactions and their consequences in arable cropping systems

Author(s): Cournault Q., Moreau D., Castel T., Colbach N.
Published in: 18th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy, Rennes, France, 26-30 Aug 2024, 2024
Publisher: INRAE

Effect of sowing patterns and species proportions of cereal–legume intercrops on weed control

Author(s): Lebreton, P., Bedoussac, L., Bonnet, C., Journet, E.-P., Justes, E., Colbach, N.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: INRAE

EWRS 2025. 20th European Weed Research Society Symposium. 1-4 July 2025 Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Joint approaches for sustainable weed management

Author(s): null European Weed Research Society
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-84-9144-572-2
Publisher: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida
DOI: 10.21001/20.WEED.RESEARCH.SOCIETY.SYMPOSIUM.2025

Intensification of crop rotation by growing multi-species mixtures for green manure

Author(s): Vujić S., Ćupina B., Krstić Đ., Šeremešić S., Vojnov B., Mačkić K., Mladenov V.
Published in: 18th Congress of the ESA, 2024
Publisher: L' Institut Agro

Caractérisation fonctionnelle et nuisibilité différenciée des adventices de la canne à sucre - Functional characterization and weed harmfulness on sugarcane production

Author(s): Lainé E., Ponsart M., Ripoche A., Damour G., Schwartz M., Affholder F
Published in: 25ème CONFÉRENCE DU COLUMA JOURNÉES INTERNATIONALES SUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LES MAUVAISES HERBES ORLÉANS, 2023
Publisher: 25ème CONFÉRENCE DU COLUMA JOURNÉES INTERNATIONALES SUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LES MAUVAISES HERBES ORLÉANS

Which pea traits for agroecological weed management in pea-wheat intercrops

Author(s): Nathalie Colbach, Judith Burstin, Delphine Moreau
Published in: 2025
Publisher: INRAE

Breeding for Crop Mixtures: Root Phenotyping for Trait Matching in Lupin–Wheat Intercropping

Author(s): R. Rossi, D. Cavalli, F. Rossi, T. Notario, L. Pecetti
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Organic Eprints
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15491015