Focus Group 'Crop associations including Milpa and protein crops'
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How to integrate crop associations into existing cropping systems and farm landscapes to increase farm resilience and efficient use of natural resources while reducing the dependency on external inputs?
Tasks
- Identify, describe and classify with adequate examples, existing or new plant associations, adapted to each farming system within their landscapes and local/regional conditions.
- Analyse the impact of the most promising crop associations on the environment, on the farmers’ productivity, profitability and resilience to climate change.
- Identify their success and fail factors and barriers for implementation and adaptation in different regions.
- Explore the role of innovation and knowledge exchange in addressing the challenges identified such as crop selection, crop rotation management, machinery, and product end use.
- Propose potential innovative actions and ideas for Operational Groups to stimulate the use and improvement of crop associations at farm level considering the impact on the landscape.
- Identify needs from practice and possible gaps in knowledge related to crop associations which may be solved by further research.
Focus Group members
Mr/Ms | Surname | First name | Country | Profession |
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Mr. | Ait Barka | Essaid | France | Researcher |
Mr. | Badenes Perez | Francisco Ruben | Spain | Researcher |
Mr. | Baranger | Alain | France | Researcher |
Mr. | Bortolussi | Stefano | Italy | Farm advisor |
Mr. | Bourke | Martin | Ireland | Farm advisor |
Mr. | Brüning | Fokko | Germany | Farmer |
Mr. | Deasy | Maurice | Ireland | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise |
Mr. | Finch | Joshua | Finland | Other |
Mr. | Fogelberg | Fredrik | Sweden | Researcher |
Mr. | Giamoustaris | Athanasios | Greece | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise |
Mr. | Hatt | Séverin | Germany | Researcher |
Mr. | Hohmann | Pierre | Spain | Farm advisor |
Mr. | Kussmann | Sebastian | Switzerland | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise |
Ms. | Pampana | Silvia | Italy | Researcher |
Mr. | Schöb | Christian | Spain | Researcher |
Mr. | Stomph | Tjeerd Jan | Netherlands | Researcher |
Mr. | van Buuren | Arjen | Netherlands | Farmer |
Mr. | van Dorst | Ivar | Netherlands | Farm manager or owner |
Mr. | van Schie | Robin | Netherlands | Entrepreneur |
Ms. | Watson | Christine | United Kingdom | Researcher |
Facilitation team
Ms | Karley | Alison | Coordinating expert |
Mr | Schreuder | Remco | Task manager |
Mr | Loureiro Veira | Xurxo | Co-task manager |