{Tool} Modernising intercropping systems - IntercropVALUES Practice Abstract. Creator(s): Famba, Sebastião; Nuvunga, João and Affholder, François. Issuing Organisation(s): IFOAM Organics Europe. (2026)
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Policy must develop markets for agricultural products and inputs to ensure access for farmers to adapted seeds, especially legumes. The relative price of maize and legume products paid to farmers must support the maintenance of legume production to the economic advantage at farm level of intercropping over sole cropping.
| EPrint Type: | Practice tool |
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| What problem does the tool address?: | Many farms in Mozambique are expected to abandon long-established practices of intercropping maize with legumes and cassava, preferring sole crops and more intensive maize production. |
| What solution does the tool offer?: | Modern intercropping solutions, designed using participatory design methods, should increase the economic return of intensified intercropped systems compared to intensified sole cropping in rotation or maize monocropping. Cereal-legume combinations appropriate for the more intensive agriculture that would emerge in this transition need to be identified for Sub-Saharan Africa, including spatial arrangement of species, sowing dates, and cultivars. |
| Country: | Mozambique |
| Type of Practice Tool: | Practice abstracts |
| Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English ecosystem services http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1348040570280 English intercropping http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3910 English socioeconomic development http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29966 English indigenous knowledge -> Indigenous Peoples' knowledge http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35704 |
| Subjects: | Crop husbandry > Crop combinations and interactions Food systems > Community development > Networks and ownership Food systems > Policy environments and social economy Knowledge management |
| Research affiliation: | European Union > Horizon Europe > IntercropVALUES France > CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement International Organizations > International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IFOAM > IFOAM Organics Europe |
| Horizon Europe or H2020 Grant Agreement Number: | 101081973 |
| Deposited By: | Bozsogi, B |
| ID Code: | 57835 |
| Deposited On: | 06 Jul 2026 08:37 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2026 08:37 |
| Document Language: | English |
| Status: | Published |
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