Consortium meeting Lelystad - 4 July
Vorige week reisde ons consortium af naar Lelystad voor een consortiumbijeenkomst én een bezoekje aan de BioVelddag. Dit keer geen storm en zelfs een …
Read MoreCrop diversity for a transition towards sustainable agriculture
Arable farmers, researchers and chain partners are joining forces to achieve a breakthrough in the transition to sustainable arable farming in the five-year research programme CropMix. The focus is on increasing crop diversity, in particular through strip cropping. By doing so, we want to bring ecology and arable farming together and drive the societal transition to a more sustainable, ecology-based agricultural system.
MoestuinMix
A common question from arable farmers considering strip cropping or other forms of mixed cropping is: which crops go well together? To find out, we are enlisting the help of about 800 experienced and inexperienced vegetable gardeners to test different combinations in our experiment MoestuinMix.
Wanted: students for thesis projects
Our PhD candidates are regularly looking for students to supervise and who can help them with their research. Are you looking for a spot to write your bachelor or master thesis? Take a look at our vacancies page.
News
Read the latest news and updates on CropMix and our findings.
Looking to the future: Circlefarms and restoring biodiversity
Circlefarm is een concept van het team van Floris Schoondrbeek.
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Spotlighted: Marcel van Diemen
Pompoenexpert Marcel van Diemen aan het woord over zijn werk als zadenveredelaar de biologische sector.
Read MoreThemes
Agro-ecology
This work package focuses on above-ground and below-ground interactions. We look at the interactions between plants, crops, insects and other species living in the field and the differences between strip cropping and monocultures.
Economy, logistics and innovation
This work package looks at the economic feasibility of investments for farmers to switch to more crop-diverse systems, such as strip cropping, and what factors influence their willingness to adopt ecology based types of farming.
Institutional change
This work package consists of social scientists and transition scholars and focuses on the social context and transition pathways. What is the role of consumers and other stakeholders? And what do different transition pathways towards more sustainable agriculture look like?
Living labs
Experimenting in practice
A living lab is a testing ground. This can be a physical place, a network or a collaboration. Led by researchers from HAS Green Academy, we are designing living labs within CropMix in which various consortium partners work together to solve specific problems from practice.
