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• Key intercropping event: March 23
  

  The final conference of the ReMIX project is to be held online this month. A joint effort from the ReMIX and DIVERSify projects, ‘Intercropping to boost agroecology in European agriculture’ will run from 09:15 to 16:45 on March 23.

• Online conference: Landscape 2021
  

  Organisers have set a deadline of March 15, 2021, for papers and posters for Landscape 2021 - Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture, an online conference being held from September 20 to 22 this year. Registration for participation in the conference, including the possibility of signing up for a series of masterclasses, opens on May 1 this year.

• DiverIMPACTS: Catch up with latest videos!
  

  The DiverIMPACTS project has recently added two new videos to its YouTube channel, bringing the total number available to 15. One video focuses on organic and soil conservation farmers who are working together in the Wallonia region of Belgium, while the other focuses on crop grazing with sheep in the same area, for the benefit of both arable producers and livestock farmers.

• Online intercropping event attracts 150+
  

  More than 150 delegates from research and farming across Europe and beyond attended the virtual conference on ‘Intercropping for Sustainability’ in January. The event was organised by the DIVERSify and ReMIX projects, working hand in hand with the Association of Applied Biologists.

• Events calendar - check it out!
  

  After the difficulties of staging events in 2020, a slew of conferences and meetings have been rescheduled for 2021, and some events, both new and reorganised, are including the possibility of virtual attendance or even introducing back-up plans that will allow organisers to move meetings to online-only events at short notice.

• UK launches centre for tomorrow’s food experts
  

  Rothamsted Research is joining forces with eight other universities and research institutes in the United Kingdom to create a joint PhD training centre focused on “developing the next generation of interdisciplinary food systems experts”.

• DiverIMPACTS: Be inspired by success stories
  

  DiverIMPACTS, the project striving “to achieve the full diversification potential of cropping systems for improved productivity, delivery of ecosystem services and resource-efficient and sustainable value chains”, has published a series of success stories to inspire further diversification.

• IPM works and IPMWORKS will show how!
  

  A European-wide network of farms is being constructed in order to “demonstrate and promote cost-effective strategies on Integrated Pest Management (IPM)”. Called IPMWORKS, the four-year Horizon 2020 project was launched last month and brings together 31 partners from 16 countries. The project will be developing an online IPM resource toolbox for farmers, advisers and researchers to easily search, share and discuss IPM resources and you can help out by completing a short survey (see links below).

• IPPC seeks phytosanitary technical specialist
  

  The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is seeking applications for the post of phytosanitary technical specialist for an 11-month contract. The specialist will support the IPPC Secretariat in delivering its work programme to strengthen IPPC contracting parties’ national capacities and capability to implement the provisions of the IPPC, and International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) and Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) recommendations.

• Survey: Agroecology initiatives in Europe
  

  Agroecology Europe has produced its first report mapping a large number of agroecological initiatives across Europe, allowing it to identify key findings and recommendations for fostering agroecology around the continent.