Resilience of the agricultural sector is an important aim of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Most often, resilience is focused on stimulating robustness, with policy and market instruments aimed at maintaining the stability of the farm business. However, a group of European scientists argues that this is too narrow a way of looking at resilience. […]
DIVERSify (Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and Agricultural Sustainability) is a four-year project (2017-2021) funded by the European Union Horizon-2020 program and designed with the aim of optimizing the performance of polycultures of cereals and legumes of grain fundamentally. It is suggested that some of these mixtures can generate synergies, compose ‘plant teams’ […]