Raul Zornoza, project coordinator, explains the environmental benefits of the introduction of crop diversification in a mandarin trees field (case study 2) in Murcia. It reduces erosion, increases soil fertility and helps to mitigate climate change effects.

The case study 2 coordinator, Virginia Sánchez, talks about the crop diversifications carried out there and the results obtained

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The diversifications of the Diverfarming project in Andalusia continue moving forward despite the pandemic, with results of 3000kg per hectare of oats grown in the olive grove

The low price of olive oil in the market, added to the environmental problems of erosion and loss of soil that Andalusian olive groves face, open the door to new management strategies, such as crop diversification and the low input practices proposed by the European Diverfarming project, financed by the European Commission’s H2020 programme.

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The Diverfarming project is holding its annual meeting in the year that the ‘Diverfarming Communities of Practitioners’ started

After the meeting held in Joikionen (Finland) in 2019, the team of the European Diverfarming project, made up of research, technical and agricultural company personnel are meeting to take stock of this third year of the project that seeks the change in paradigm in European agriculture, towards a more environmentally and economically sustainable system based on crop diversification and low input management practices.

The researcher Esperanza Huerta Lwanga from Wageningen University explains the case studies carried out by Diverfarming project in The Netherlands.