Legume-cereal intercropping for sustainable agriculture across Europe (LEGUMINOSE)

欧洲可持续农业的豆类-谷物间作 (LEGUMINOSE)

• 批准号: 10039837
• 金额: $ 56.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF READING
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10039837
• 关键词: Legume; cereal; intercropping; sustainable; agriculture

As conventional cropping systems face deterioration of soil quality, loss of biodiversity, and declining ecosystem services, there isan urgent need to change practices to more sustainable yet productive systems. Intercropping enhances biodiversity, maximizes landproductivity, and optimizes biogeochemical cycles in agroecosystems, but is lacking acceptance from European farmers. Legume-basedintercropping takes advantage of biological diversity and synergistic effects between companion plants while reducing external inputs. Amajor objective of LEGUMINOSE is to identify the obstacles to intercropping and enhance farmers’ acceptance by providing knowledgeand demonstrations that promote economic, environmental, and social benefits of legume-cereal intercropping. LEGUMINOSE willassess intercropping potential by focusing on pesticide reduction, plant-microbe mediated element cycling, soil health improvement, andcrop quality and health. To overcome barriers to intercropping implementation, we will establish a network of six field trials and farmlabs (20 farms in each country; 180 on-farm trials) in different pedo-climatic zones across Europe (IT, DE, DR, ES, PL, CZ, UK), Egypt,and Pakistan. Furthermore, we will integrate remote sensing and crop modelling to survey fields, upscale the field-scale results, andcreate a web-based decision support system on intercropping. In collaboration with various stakeholders, legume-intercropping systems'economical, ecological, and social gains will be assessed and disseminated with international outreach from farm-level to policymakers.We will recognize and involve the whole value chain to explore and test innovative marketing strategies for the products of intercropping.LEGUMINOSE will contribute to the ecological intensification of European agriculture by providing science-based, farmer-led, andeconomically viable transformations for legume-based intercropping systems.

由于传统的种植系统面临土壤质量恶化、生物多样性丧失和生态系统服务功能下降的问题，迫切需要改变做法，采用更可持续、更高产的系统。间作可以提高生物多样性，最大限度地提高土地生产力，优化农业生态系统中的生物化学循环，但缺乏欧洲农民的接受。豆科间作利用了生物多样性和伴生植物间的协同效应，同时减少了外部投入。豆类的一个主要目标是通过提供知识和示范，促进豆类-谷物间作的经济，环境和社会效益，确定间作的障碍，提高农民的接受程度。LEGUMINOSE将通过关注农药减少、植物-微生物介导的元素循环、土壤健康改善以及作物质量和健康来评估间作潜力。为了克服间作实施的障碍，我们将在欧洲（IT，DE，DR，ES，PL，CZ，UK），埃及和巴基斯坦的不同土壤气候带建立一个由6个田间试验和农场实验室组成的网络（每个国家20个农场; 180个农场试验）。此外，我们将整合遥感和作物建模来调查田地，扩大田地规模的结果，并创建一个基于网络的间作决策支持系统。通过与各利益相关方的合作，我们将评估和传播豆类间作系统的经济、生态和社会效益，并从农场层面到政策制定者进行国际推广。我们将认识并参与整个价值链，探索和测试间作产品的创新营销策略。LEGUMINOSE将通过提供以科学为基础，农民为主导，和经济上可行的豆类间作系统的转换。