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The Diverfarming team have developed a handbook of indicators to assess the effects of crop diversification in soils and plants
What indicators reveal if an agricultural system is being sustainable? And, which methods would be the most reliable to measure them? A team made up of technical and research personnel, in collaboration with farming businesses, has published the Handbook of plant and soil analysis for agricultural systems, aiming to answer these questions. This publication thus becomes one of the first practical results of the Diverfarming project, financed by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, and centred on propagating crop diversification and the use of low-input farming practices as basic strategies for sustainable agriculture in Europe.
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Researchers collected information about extraction of bioactive ingredients, fragrances and flavours from intercropped perennial herbs in German organic steep slope viticulture
Following WP8 “Economic assessment at farms and value chains” the German researchers and winemakers have visited the company Flavex Naturextrakte in Rehlingen (Saarland, Germany) (http://www.flavex.com/) to know if the intercropped thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) and oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) are suitable for extraction as bioactive ingredients, fragrances and flavours.
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The Diverfarming project has developed an economic assessment methodology which is integrated from the crop production in the field right through to the final value chain
The change in paradigm posed by the European H2020 Diverfarming project is based on the tools that crop diversification and the low-input management practices contribute to the European agricultural sector in the battle against the negative effects which threaten its very stability: degradation and loss of soils, drop in the biodiversity, or the low yields in harvests and their socioeconomic repercussions in the sector.
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The team from the University of Cordoba integrated in the Diverfarming project studies the commercialisation of lavender in Brihuega
The members of the UCO team working in the European Diverfarming project have travelled to Brihuega (Guadalajara, Spain) to know the value chain of the lavender and lavandin crops in a municipality which is the national leader in production of these crops.
