Cropping techniques

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- 03/22/2024 : Benefits of agroforestry in the Sahel
- 03/15/2024 : OrganicYieldsUP – a new project to enhance organic crop yields across Europe
- 11/13/2023 : Technical guide on organic bush berry production in Kosovo published
- 11/10/2023 : IntercropVALUES partners meet to share vision, achievements and plans
- 10/21/2021 : Reaching East African farmers with digital training
- 07/01/2021 : Synergies between FiBL field experiment and case studies to promote crop diversification
- 06/04/2021 : New flyer – Crop Diversification: Making European Agriculture More Sustainable
- 03/17/2021 : Workshop on improving the sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards
- 02/24/2021 : Final conference "Intercropping to boost agroecology in European Agriculture" by ReMIX and DIVERSify
- 02/24/2021 : New reference document on organic production principles and good practice
- 05/05/2020 : Video: Increasing domestic protein supply with intercropping
- 04/28/2020 : Organic Farm Knowledge - A unique resource with tools for farmers across Europe
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	FR	Fruit production in agroforestry and development of water savings: multistate and syntropic mediterranean orchards (PARDESSYM)	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	AT	Agroforestry systems: Type and number survey and contribution to sustain biodiversity	01.10.2023	31.05.2025
ongoing	AT	Agroforestry training initiative	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Multifunktionale Gründüngen – angepasst und wirksam für den Bioanbau (Mélange de couverts végétaux multifonctionnels)	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Increasing the economic profitability of wheat and faba bean intercropping (Association blé-féverole)	01.01.2023	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Biodiversity boost through regenerative organic agroforestry in Central Ghana	20.11.2022	30.11.2024
ongoing	CH	Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries (IntercropValuES)	01.11.2022	31.10.2026
ongoing	CH	Strategies for the adaptation of arable farming systems to climate change and their contribution to climate protection in the Upper Rhine region (KLIMACrops)	01.10.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	DE CH EU	Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe (LiveSeeding)	01.10.2022	30.09.2026
ongoing	CH	Rape in mixed cultivation	01.08.2022	31.12.2026
completed	CH	Cocoa-based dynamic agroforestry and wild Bolivian specialty cocoa value chain development (Amazonia resiliente)	10.04.2022	31.07.2023
completed	FR	Towards agroforestry in fruit growing: multi-layer & syntropic systems for climate change resilience and water protection	01.01.2022	31.12.2022
completed	CH	Blue and white lupin (Lupin bleu et lupin blanc)	01.01.2021	31.12.2021
ongoing	CH	Optimization of non-chemical weed management in aromatic and medicinal plants (OGAPAM)	01.11.2020	01.05.2025
completed	CH	Breeding to establish Swiss peas in agriculture and human nutrition (ZESELE)	01.10.2020	30.09.2024
completed	CH	Multi-actor and transdisciplinary development of efficient and resilient MIXED farming and agroforestry-systems (MIXED)	01.10.2020	30.09.2024
completed	CH	PROMISE – Sustainable protein supply with species mixtures in Switzerland – focus on pea and lentil (PROMISE)	01.02.2020	31.01.2024
completed	CH	Maize intercropping for silage (Maïs associé pour ensilage)	01.01.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Cultivar testing and optimizing the cultivation of white and narrow-leafed lupin	01.01.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Training materials and courses for best practices in organic and dynamic Cocoa Agroforestry systems	01.11.2019	30.09.2022
completed	CH	Going Bananas: Restoring Livelihoods of Conflict Affected Farmers in Cotabato (Going Bananas)	01.07.2019	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Relay intercropping – Further developing a resource-conserving cultivation system for soya in mixed culture in practice	30.04.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted by Actors and Value Chains towards Sustainability (DiverIMPACTS)	01.05.2017	30.04.2022
completed	CH	ReMIX - Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures (ReMIX)	01.05.2017	30.04.2021
completed	CH	Mixed crops Fribourg	01.02.2015	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Biofertilization and "bioirrigation" for sustainable mixed cropping of pigeon pea and finger millet (ISCB_BIOFI_BT)	01.05.2014	30.05.2017
completed	CH	Breeding research on anthracnose tolerance and intercropping of lupin	01.01.2014	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Intercroping of cereals and grain legumes - Steps towards increased domestic protein production	01.01.2010	31.12.2014

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