Conveners
Intercropping
- Treier Simon
- Jingjing Zhang
Exploring the potential of wheat-soybean intercropping as a climate change adaptation in crop production
1. Introduction
Due to climate change and agricultural intensification, crop production has been negatively influenced since the early 2000s. Yet, crop production needs to be doubled to feed the growing population by 2050. Crop diversification has the potential to enhance yield stability...
Introduction
Intercropping offers the prospect of providing greater and more stable yield than sole-cropping in the face of climate change and increased climate variability. Cereal-legume intercropping is common in tropical cropping systems, but often with low legume density and limited or no nutrient inputs. Combining intercropping with integrated soil fertility management is a solution for...
Cereal/legume intercropping allows for reducing inputs while achieving higher crop yields on the same land than expected from the monoculture crop yields of the constituent species. However, several studies have shown that the performance of intercrops depends on the genotypes chosen, crop management, and environmental conditions. Yet, evaluating multiple genotypes on various sites and under...
Introduction
Germany aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, with focus needed on the agriculture sector where agroforestry systems (AFS), such as alley-cropping, can serve as effective carbon sinks by cultivating perennial woody plants alongside annual crops or grasslands. According to (Beillouin et al., 2023), AFS are the most effective agricultural measure for increasing organic soil...
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Strip intercropping is a form of species mixture where the companion species are grown in narrow strips to allow species-specific management. Strong interspecific interactions occur between plants in the borders of these strips, whereas plants in the middle of the strips mostly compete for resources with conspecifics (Zhu et al., 2015). Light capture differs greatly between...
