2023/12/06 by Guénaëlle Corre‐Hellou, Corre-Hellou, Guenaelle, Laurent Bedoussac +49
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research #Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems #Blé #Cooperative Studies and Economics #Cultures associées #Intercropping #Pea #Pois #Services #Wheat
paper · doi:10.17180/w3pk-w678
openalex created_date 2017/04/07 · openalex publication_date 2023/12/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26
We have seen in the last decades in France a great simplification in crop successions in cereal farms and mixed farms with livestock with an increasing use of inputs and a standardization of crop management. The challenge is now to build more diversified agroecosystems through an ecological management of crop areas in order to increase yields and stability and to supply several ecosystemic services. This project has investigated the increase in crop diversity in space within the field through cereal-legume intercropping. Different services may be obtained in organic and conventional farming systems, in cereal and mixed farms with livestock. Intercropping can combine productivity, reduction of inputs, environmental impacts and stability against various biotic and abiotic constraints. Several practices have been tested in order to manage performance of intercrops for different aims. The advantages and constraints for different stakeholders such as collectors have been investigated and quantified.