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，设计和管理农民和农业食品链中的行为者可以接受的生产性、多样化、有弹性、有利可图、环境友好的种植系统。它将开展科学研究行动，以更好地了解和模拟密切的间作功能，并详细分析价值链一级的锁定和杠杆，以确定农民和价值链行为者可以采用的可靠解决方案。作为一个多学科和多行为体的项目，它汇集了代表食品价值链的科学家和当地行为体。来自三大洲15个国家的27名与会者来自各种各样的组织和利益攸关方。IntercropValues组织了6个目标的活动，以：1）通过13个共同创新案例研究，支持设计与当地相关的，合法的和创新的农业食品链;（2）了解功能和G*G*E* M的相互作用，允许选择兼容的理想型和优化的机械和管理战略，以最大限度地提高生产力和提供生态系统服务，更好的土壤健康和缓解温室气体（15 Meta试验点）; 3）提供新的信息，改进间作管理的方法和工具，并评估其绩效和盈利能力; 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、食品加工功能品质和新产品; 6）在价值链层面发现关键障碍和杠杆，以促进发展，并确定新的市场渠道和解决方案，以增加间作的经济附加值。宣传和传播计划旨在通过适当的渠道向不同的最终用户广泛传播成果，如农民、顾问、食品加工公司和机械工业、零售商和公民、学术界、决策者和影响机构。

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.