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

IntercropValueES旨在利用间作的好处来设计和管理多产、多样化、有弹性、有利可图、环境友好的种植制度，为农民和农业食物链中的参与者所接受。它将制定一项科学研究行动，以便更好地了解和模拟密切的作物间作功能，并对价值链一级的锁定和杠杆进行详细分析，以确定农民和价值链行为者可以采用的可信解决方案。作为一个多学科和多参与者的项目，它将代表食品价值链的科学家和当地参与者聚集在一起。它包括来自15个国家(3大洲)的27名与会者，他们来自不同的组织和利益攸关方。IntercropValuES将其活动组织为6个目标：1)通过13个联合创新案例研究，支持设计当地相关的、合法的和创新的农业食物链；2)了解功能和G*G*E*M互动，从而选择兼容的理想类型并优化机械和管理战略，以最大限度地提高生产力和提供生态系统服务，同时更好地促进土壤健康和减缓温室气体排放(Meta实验15个地点)；3)产生新的信息、改进的方法和工具，用于间作管理及其绩效和盈利评估；4)通过建模揭示间作绩效；5)分析粮豆间作的粮食和卫生品质、食品加工和新产品的功能品质；6)发现价值链层面的关键障碍和杠杆，促进间作发展，寻找提高间作经济附加值的市场新途径和解决方案。社区和传播计划旨在通过调整渠道将成果广泛传播给不同的最终用户，如农民、顾问、食品加工公司和机械行业、零售商和公民、学术界、政策制定者和影响机构。

IntercropValueES aims to exploit benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems acceptable to farmers and actors in the agri-food chain. It will develop both a scientific research action for better understanding and modelling intimate intercrop functioning and a detailed analysis of lock-ins and levers at the value chain level to identify credible solutions that can be adopted by farmers and value chain actors. As a multi-disciplinary and multi-actor project, it brings together scientists and local actors representing food value chain. It includes 27 participants from 15 countries (3 continents) from a wide diversity of organizations and stakeholders. IntercropValuES organizes its activities in 6 objectives, to: 1) support the design of locally relevant, legitimate and innovative agri-food chains, through 13 Co-Innovation Case Studies; 2) understand the functioning and G*G*E*M interactions allowing the selection of compatible ideotypes and the optimization of machinery and management strategies for maximizing the productivity and delivery of ecosystem services with better soil health and mitigation of GHG (meta experiment 15 sites); 3) produce novel information, improved methods and tools for intercrop management and the assessment of their performance and profitability; 4) unravel intercropping performance by modelling; 5) analyze grain and sanitary quality of cereal-legume intercrops, functional qualities for food processing and new products, 6) uncover key barriers and levers at the value chain level to boost development, and identify new market avenues and solutions to increase economic added-value of intercrops. The Comms and Dissemination Plan is designed to diffuse outcomes widely by adapted channels to different end-users, such as farmers, advisors, food processing companies and machinery industries, retailers and citizens, academia, policymakers and influence bodies.