CDC: Read the flyer!
Europe’s Crop Diversification Cluster has produced a flyer explaining how they are joining forces to help change European agriculture. The cluster brings together six European projects (and partners further afield) addressing multiple facets of crop diversification, including the introduction of species mixtures, innovative plant teams and encouraging legume-based systems.
The flyer explains: “The diversification of crops through rotation, multiple cropping and species mixtures can allow farming systems to become more resource-efficient with fewer agronomic inputs. Diversified systems can help meet the needs of end users for food, feed and industrial products and simultaneously deliver other ecosystem services and public goods.”
It adds: “Projects within the cluster are collaborating to increase the impact of crop diversification research and encourage sustained uptake of diversification measures by farmers in Europe through innovations across the agri-value chain.”
This involves knowledge transfer in:
- Barriers to crop diversification and their solutions
- Innovative cropping methods, decision tools and new resources for crop diversification
- New end user focused approaches and field demonstrations across pedo-climatic regions of Europe to share innovations and crop diversification experiences
- Multi-criteria assessment of system performance at field, farm, value chain and landscape levels
- Policy recommendations to facilitate uptake of crop diversification
- Communicating joint activities in the cluster and disseminating joint outputs
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