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Practice abstracts

Practice abstracts are short, accessible factsheets that provide practical information in a common format. DiverIMPACTS has produced many practice abstracts focusing on topics ranging from agricultural techniques and how to diversify cropping systems to dissemination and enhancing actor networks. You find practice abstracts according to our six topics or by looking at the full list below.

All DiverIMPACTS practice abstracts

2-years rotation, an alternative to maize monocropping in Bearn (France)
Accounting for co-product use to capture the indirect effects of crop diversification with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Apiculture and honey crops as a diversification of income and crops in small farms
Avoiding hoeing in organic oilseed rape
Breaking maize monoculture by introducing soybeans and oat cover crop in the rotation in Bearn (France)
Building successful value chains for diversified cropping systems, using Hodmedods as an example
Co-designing innovative cropping systems through long-term on-farm experiments
Cover crop grazing by sheep: successful partnerships between sheep and arable farmers
Cultivation of white lupin
The creation of an intercropping sector
Designing a low carbon cropping system: Relay-cropping, a method of producing two crops a year
Designing strip intercropping systems
Developing tools that assist with design support approaches to promote cropping system diversification
Diversification of cereal-based rotations with soybean as a second crop
Diversification of silage maize cultivation by using winter cover crops enabled by ultra-early maize varieties
Diversified rotations in protected vegetable production systems
Diversified rotations in protected vegetable production systems including cover crops
Diversifying rotations by introducing spring crop to reduce weed pressure in Berry (France)
European crop diversification experiences enabled by value chain innovations
European crop diversification experiences pushed by farmers exploring more sustainable agronomic practices
Establishing summer cover crops before winter cereals in low tillage systems on sandy soils
Facilitating a multi-actor stakeholder process using forcefield analysis
Facilitating collaboration between farmers
Fertilisation of maize after catch crops, based on the improved valorisation of organic fertilisers
From crop diversity to ecosystem services: using indicators to evaluate crop diversification benefits
Growing yellow peas in Wallonia in a pea-wheat intercropping system
How to ensure demonstration events are successful for knowledge exchange
Including diverse leys in arable rotations
Increasing awareness of soil microbial ecosystem services
Increasing crop diversification with flower strips to improve natural pest control and pollination
Increasing exchanges between farmers to enhance crop diversification
Increasing feed production using legume and cereal mixtures as a second crop
Integrating flowers for attracting beneficial insects in protected cropping
Intercropping grain peas with barley
Intercropping of lupin for weed control and complementary grain production in organic farming
Intercropping legumes with rapeseed to reduce nitrogen and pesticide use in a 10-year diversified cropping system in Champagne, France
Intercropping legumes with rapeseed to reduce nitrogen inputs and pesticide use and improve profitability in a 9-year diversified cropping system in Berry, France
Introducing oats as an energy catch crop in maize monocropping in Bearn (France)
The introduction of strip cropping into the mid-Adriatic region
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to capture indirect effects of crop diversification – how to consider the multiple functions of diversified cropping systems?
Multi-species summer cover crop in protected vegetable systems
Nitrogen supply for winter oilseed rape
A participatory approach to improving farm logistics
The potential of biofumigation to control soil borne pests, pathogens and weeds
Rapeseed regrowth and white clover cover crop valorisation through sheep grazing
Reintroducing hemp cultivation in Mediterranean areas
Shared values and fair relationships as a basis for a sustainable collaboration in local (organic) value chains
Silage sorghum, an alternative to silage maize
Small scale diversification with cereals, quinoa, pulses, etc, in local (organic) value chains
Strip tillage: a method to limit the time needed for soil tillage in diversified crop systems: An example in sugar beet
Success and failure factors of European diversification experiences
Testing soil for legume fatigue
Tools for defining a fair price and strengthening crop diversification value chains
Using a partner crop in maize for weed suppression
Using farm sustainability assessment tools to assess the impacts of diversification
The visual puzzle: a communication tool to understand the usefulness, contributions and needs of actors in a multi-actor platform
Winter field peas as green manure before nitrogen-demanding crops
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