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MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2020
Welcome and Introduction
SESSION ONEThe Crop Diversification Cluster of Horizon 2020 projects
Platform Presentations
Parallel Session One A: Nutrient and Pest Management (I)
Choosing species and spatial arrangements for yield and weed control in soybean-basedintercropping
Nitrogen effects on pea-barley intercrop productivity compared to sole crops in Denmark. Underreview in: Sustainability: Land Management and Sustainable Agricultural Production
Weed suppression and yield of sole and intercropped grain legumes under the conditions oforganic farming
Sustainable management of the insect pest complex in winter oilseed rape: The case ofintercropping
Antagonistic responses to crop diversification at two levels of fertilizer and herbicide application
DISCUSSION
Parallel Session One B: Intercropping for Yield Benefits
Using the land equivalent ratio to compare the productivity of agroforestry systems at different scenarios
Diversifying crop rotation sequences with grain legume/cereal intercrops and legume/grass cover crops
Alternative approaches to home-grown protein production: Yield and quality characteristics of micro-silage made from legume-cereal intercrops
Is there a role for intercropping in Australian dryland cropping systems to increase yield and reduce risk – a review
Tephrosia fallow enhances grain yield of maize-common bean intercrops: Results from ademonstration trial in western Kenya
SESSION TWO
Multispecies interactions in the pest control system of shade coffee in the Americas
LIVE Q&A WITH JOHN VANDERMEER
Parallel Session Two A: Environmental Benefits and Ecosystem Services
Potential for legume-cereal relay intercropping in enhancing plant-soil-AMF interactions andyield
Complex intercropping of winter oilseed rape with frost sensitive service plants: How to explain
ecosystem services variability?
Effects of barley-pea intercropping on soil organic decomposition rates
Intercrops enhance soil conditions, an example of the organic fodder case study site at The Netherlands
Multi-species grasslands: diversity enhances forage crop multifunctionality
Parallel Session Two B: Nutrient and Pest Management (II)
Wheat-pea intercrop affects activity density and biocontrol potential of generalist predators
The impact of a spring bean companion crop in oilseed rape on cabbage stem flea beetle pressure, nitrogen interactions and yield in the East Anglia
Shifting historical monocrop rotations with intercropping can promote soil phosphorus fertility when multi-nutrient enriched compost was amended in semi-arid regions
N fertilization affects complementarity and dominance differently depending on crop mixtures
END OF SESSION
SESSION THREE: Poster Session (Poster Presentations within Breakout Rooms)
Intercropping reduces plant disease incidence regardless of fertilizer input; a meta-analysis
Dry matter accumulation and translocation in maize/peanut intercropping in response to N input
Intercropping maize and soybean increases efficiency of land and fertilizer nitrogen use; a meta-analysis
A meta-analysis on weed suppression in annual intercropping
Intercropping grain legumes with cereals: a promising approach to spread legume crops in Central Italy
Discerning mechanisms behind disease reduction in faba bean and pea intercropped with cereals
Shade Effects in Silvoarable Agroforestry Systems in Switzerland
Intercropping of oat and pea to address field heterogeneity
A role for agroforestry in reducing ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant livestocksystems
Effect of fertilization and water stress on growth and yield of common bean intercropped with corn
Spatial variation of grain yields in a field-scale pea-barley intercrop
Diversification strategies of cropping systems including intercropping: learning from Syppre® devices
Barrier and enablers of intercropping in the UK
The impact of clover intercropping on yield, margin and soil properties in a long running UK fieldexperiment
(Re) Introduce ‘the three sisters’ for machine harvest in Austria
Across time analysis of morphological and physiological traits in grassland plant mixtures versus monocultures
Use of appropriate breeding methodology for selecting appropriate cultivar for intercropping
Assessment of mixtures of legumes and cereals in Spanish Mediterranean farming systems
Potential of agricultural grass cultivars for increasing water infiltration and soil organic carbon
Plant traits, plasticity and their impact on performance of wheat-pea species mixtures: evaluation ofcontrasting wheat genotypes
Optimising intercrops for Western Kenya
Intercropping of melon and cowpea can improve melon production and ecosystem services
Use of intercropping for a better resource use efficiency in a Mediterranean climate
Optimising species complementarities in mixed cropping systems to secure local protein supply
Yield and quality of four annual forage mixtures versus individual components
Minimalist Mixture Model (M3): A tool to explore the plant team performance under different nitrogeninputs and pedoclimatic conditions
An agricultural diversification trial by patchy field arrangements at the landscape level: ScientificObjectives and Experimental Design
Root trait variation within a wheat/faba bean intercrop system during the early growing stage
Leaf functional traits of maize in intercrops
Plant-soil and plant-plant interactions in winter oilseed rape intercropped with service plants: are therefunctional differences between species?
Rhizobium effect on lateral root development of pea under various nitrate concentrations in the earlygrowth: A phenotype interview
Rhizoboxes intercropping effect root morphology and rhizosphere
DIVERSiplotter – a tool for field data visualization based on the DIVERSify intercropping trials
Evaluation of maize and soybean intercropping on soil quality and nitrogen transformations in Nigerianloamy soil
Simulation of pea-barley intercrop productivity using DAISY model
A qualitative model to predict Acyrthosiphon pisum infestations in pea crops and pea-wheat intercrops
Multi-dimensional trait space in cereal-legume mixtures: an analysis across environments and plantteams
Improving the economic value of species mixtures through harvesting and grain separation jointedmanagement
TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2020
SESSION FOUR:Innovations and Tools
Breaking barriers to plant team polycultures: A role for PAT, modern machinery and novel products?
Large field trials as platforms to develop digital tools for intercropping
Intercropping for sustainable agriculture: theory, mechanisms and multifunctionality
Using spatially explicit plant competition models to optimise productivity in intercropping
Breeding climbing beans for intercropping with maize: From research to application
Creating a typology of crop diversity tools (TypoCrop)
11 Multi actor platforms on mixed cropping across Europe; Technical and socio-economicexperiences
SESSION FIVE: Poster Session (Poster Presentations within Breakout Rooms)
Wheat-faba bean temporary consociation in organic farming in a Mediterranean environment
Across time analysis of morphological and physiological traits in grassland plant mixtures versusmonocultures
SESSION SIX: Discussion Panel with farming practitioners
WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2020
SESSION SEVEN
LIVE Q&A WITH BERNHARD SCHMID
Parallel Session Six A: New approaches to investigate intercropping mechanisms
Using plant traits to understand the contribution of biodiversity effects to community productivityin an agricultural system
Intercropping maize with Andean lupin: A view to the roots
Genetic drivers for mixture performance in pea and barley
Water use and water source of six different crop species in mixed cultures
Parallel Session Seven B: Species, varieties and sowing arrangements (I)
Syndromes of production in intercropping: How management strategies impact yield gains
Crop Management – how does it affect the performance of intercrops?
Performance of faba bean-wheat mixture under diverse Mediterranean environments
SESSION EIGHT
LIVE Q&A WITH MARIA FINCKH
Parallel Session Eight A: Species, varieties and sowing arrangements (II)
Wheat-pea species mixtures as resource efficient and high-performance food cropping systems:evaluation of contrasting wheat genotypes
Varietal key-traits to optimise agronomic efficiency of winter wheat - pea mixtures
Strip intercropping of maize, wheat, pea and faba bean in the Netherlands: Which speciescombinations are advantageous?
Effect of spring wheat and faba bean intercropping design on crop productivity and climaticrisks
Reliability of growth cycle and architectural characteristics as criteria for intercropping designin market gardening: strategies to cluster vegetable crops according to their architecture
Parallel Session Eight B: New approaches to investigate intercropping mechanisms (II)
Grain yield stability of individual cereal-legume mixtures grown across Europe
Coordinating big data in agriculture: a feasible example
Increasing plant diversity reduces reproductive effort in annual crops
Recent advances in intercropping modelling: The new version of the STICS soil-crop modelsimulates consistently a wide range of bi-specific annual intercrops
EcosysteMIX: an interactive web app to design crop mixtures combining empirical and scientificknowledge
SESSION NINE: Film premiere and closing remarks
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