Parallel sessions

There will be four time slots for the parallel sessions. To view the full conference programme, click here. To see which oral presentations will be in each session, click on the links below. To see which poster presentations have been allocated to the sessions, click here.

1. Co-designing crop diversification: which actors to include beyond the farm?
2. Co-designing crop diversification at the field level: what do actors want?
3. Niche management and diversification projects: how to turn theory into action and vice versa?
4. Connecting actors to foster crop diversification: how to turn theory into action and vice versa?
5. Enhancing agrosystem resilience and performances by crop diversification
6. Diversification benefits: their economic value and carry-over effects
7. Soil microbial functional diversity enhanced by cropping system diversification
8. Cropping system diversification to support biocontrol
9. Impacts of introducing service crops and legumes in cropping systems
10. New inter and strip-cropping: crop and ecological performances
12. Breeding for intraspecific diversity
13. Breeding for interspecific mixtures
14. Designing and optimising interspecific mixtures
15. Barriers, lock ins, enablers and practical experiences of crop diversification
16. Valuing crop diversification products
17. Tools to design, manage and monitor diversified systems from the field to the landscape levels

The following oral presentations will take place in session 1:

• Co-designing crop diversification strategies from plot to sociotechnical system to manage root-knot nematodes in Mediterranean market gardening systems
  Speaker: Yann Boulestreau, INRA, France
• Building diversification and inputs reduction in intensive arable farms in Italy: main concepts and experimental co-design
  Speaker: Emanuele Blasi, University of Tuscia, Italy
• Organic seed production and use in Hungary
  Speaker: Judit Fehér, ÖMKi, Hungary
• Towards effective networking for crop diversity in Europe
  Speaker: Judit Fehér, ÖMKi, Hungary
• The industrialisation of agri-food systems and the demise of home-grown legumes in Europe
  Speaker: Pete Iannetta, The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 2:

• Co-design and multicriteria assessment of wheat variety mixtures for organic farming systems
  Speaker: Emma Forst, INRA, France
• Participatory strategy to build sustainable cropping system: upscaling from field to the territory
  Speaker: Corrado Ciaccia, CREA, Italy
• What do end-users expect from EcosysteMIX, a tool for supporting the design of crop mixtures?
  Speaker: Safia Médiène, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 3:

• Diversification of cropping systems in a context of shallow soils: implementation and performances of both on-station and on-farm systems
  Speaker: Stéphane Cadoux, Terres Inovia, France
• Co-design and assessment of agronomical scenarios for reintroduction of legumes into a French territory
  Speaker: Elise Pelzer, INRA, France
• Investigating farmer-driven co-innovation for increased species mixture cropping in European agriculture using the Danish ReMIX multi-actor approach
  Speaker: Ane Kirstine Aare, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Multi-actor approaches for diversified cropping systems: fostering complexity-sensitivity through co-innovation in DiverIMPACTS
  Speaker: Walter Rossing, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 4:

• Translating knowledge for legume-based farming for food and feed (Legumes Translated)
  Speaker: Donal Murphy-Bokern, Germany
• Building and fostering trust as a craft
  Speaker: Barbara Koole, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Knowledge exchange in 'plant team' cropping with on-farm participatory research
  Speaker: Alison Karley, The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 5:

• Syppre: better reconciliation of global and local issues through innovative and diversified cropping systems
  Speaker: Paul Tauvel, ITB, France
• Diversified arable cropping systems and management in selected European regions have positive effects on crop production and soil organic carbon
  Speaker: Claudia Di Bene, CREA, Italy
• Does diversity affect dynamics of agricultural system facing perturbations?
  Speaker: Manon Dardonville, INRA and Agrosolutions, France
• Does cropping system diversification with legumes lead to higher yield stability? Diverging evidence from long-term experiments across Europe
  Speaker: Moritz Reckling, ZALF, Germany
• Co-design and multicriteria assessment of low-input cropping systems in the South-West of France: an 8-years experimentation with farmers
  Speaker: Lionel Alletto, Chambre régionale d'agriculture Occitanie, France
• Combining temporal and spatial diversification to improve economic, environmental and social performances in European cropping systems
  Speaker: Loïc Viguier, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 6:

• Estimation of crop rotation effects based on farm accountancy data
  Speaker: Romaric Sodjahin, INRA, France
• On the economics of crop rotation diversification: pre crop, crop rotation and price effects
  Speaker: Alain Carpentier, INRA, France
• Economic benefits of agro-ecological ecosystem services: consumers value diverse cropping systems
  Speaker: Heikki Lehtonen, Luke, Finland
• Finding and fastening the missing link: a novel method to estimate pre-crop values for previous and subsequent crop combinations
  Speaker: Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Luke, Finland
• Pre-cropping effects from grain legumes on wheat and oilseed rate: nitrogen fluxes and productivity
  Speaker: Anne Schneider, Terres Inovia, France
• Economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by crop diversification
  Speaker: Francisco Alcón, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
• How to reconcile short-term and long-term objectives in agroforestry systems? An application of viability theory to mixed horticultural systems
  Speaker: Raphaël Paut, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 7:

• Effects of diversification on agricultural soil fungal biodiversity and community structures under Mediterranean conditions
  Speaker: Luigi Orrù, CREA, Italy
• Crop diversification - Implications on microbiologically mediated soil ecosystem services
  Speaker: Christoph Tebbe, Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Germany
• Ecological service provided by cover crops on agroecosystem mycorrhization: the MA% indicator
  Speaker: Alessandra Trinchera, CREA, Italy
• Aromatic plants as intercrops in viticulture - Consequences for soil biology
  Speaker: Felix Dittrich, Trier University, Germany

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 8:

• Influence of temporal diversification on aboveground arthropods
  Speaker: Michael Meyer, University of Münster, Germany
• Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in wheat-dominated cropping systems: spill-over effects on densities and parasitism rates of vegetation dwelling natural pest control agents?
  Speaker: Katharina Schulz, Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Germany
• Evaluating effects of cropping-systems diversification on biocontrol potential using Rapid Ecosystem Functions Assessment methods
  Speaker: Giovanni Antonio Puliga, Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Germany
• Biodiversity and regulatory ecosystem services in soybean (Glycine max) cropping systems
  Speaker: Daniel Alejandro Amthauer Gallardo, Thünen Institute Biodiversity, Germany
• Does crop diversification ensure mixed cropping systems health?
  Speaker: Marc Tchamitchian, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 9:

• Do tomorrow's diversified cropping systems need ley pastures?
  Speaker: Guillaume Martin, INRA, France
• Cropping diversification and N fertilization effects on soil greenhouse gas emissions in irrigated Mediterranean conditions
  Speaker: Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes, CSIC, Spain
• Diversifying irrigated rotations with cover crops in Mediterranean semi-arid regions: learnings from a long-term experiment
  Speaker: María Alonso-Ayuso, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Multifunctional analysis of ecosystem services relative to the nitrogen fluxes provided by ten legume crops
  Speaker: Maé Guinet, INRA, France
• Agro-ecosystem services and drivers of variability in their delivery from legumes in European cropping systems: a systematic review
  Speaker: Dirk van Apeldoorn, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• Increasing cover crop benefits from the termination method choice in semi-arid Mediterranean regions
  Speaker: María Alonso-Ayuso, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Diversity of perennial legume-grass mixture influences the delivery of ecosystem services in organic arable cropping systems
  Speaker: Nawa Raj Dhamala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 10:

• Intercropped melon-cowpea organic system can improve melon yield and land equivalent ratio
  Speaker: Raúl Zornoza, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
• Trait combinations for efficient nitrogen utilization in pea-barley and wheat-faba bean plant teams field-grown in Sweden
  Speaker: James Ajal, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Mobilizing within-field diversity for ecosystem service delivery in temperate arable systems
  Speaker: Lenora Ditzler, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• Grain legume-cereal intercropping increases the reliance on dinitrogen fixation in grain legumes and enhances soil N acquisition in cereal plants: A meta-analysis
  Speaker: Carolina Rodriguez Gonzalez, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Impact of fertilization and legume sowing density on intercropped triticale-pea performances under organic farming - synthesis of three years of trials
  Speaker: Didier Stilmant, CRA-W, Belgium
• Intercropping promotes both agronomic and ecological aims: the case of organic strip cropped cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.)
  Speaker: Juventia Stella, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• Weed species competition for different N sources along gradients in a pea-barley intercrop
  Speaker: Ortrud Jäck, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Exploring below-ground interspecific root-root interactions to understand advantage of intercropping in terms of productivity, nutrient use and soil fertility
  Speaker: Long Li, China Agricultural University, China

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 12:

• Innovative approaches to optimize genetic diversity in wheat for sustainable farming systems of the future (INSUSFAR)
  Speaker: Odette Weedon, University of Kassel, Germany
• Information system ROBUSTUM for diversity breeding
  Speaker: Lorenz Bülow, JKI, Germany
• Production risk in organic winter wheat cultivation - heterogeneous populations vs. pure line varieties
  Speaker: Torsten Siegmeier, University of Kassel, Germany
• Economic performance of organic winter wheat production with composite cross populations
  Speaker: Torsten Siegmeier, University of Kassel, Germany
• Performance, diversity and stability of population-varieties developed within a wheat participatory breeding program in France
  Speaker: Gaëlle van Frank, INRA, France
• Yield stability and yield variability of diverse wheat populations to inter- and intra-site heterogeneity
  Speaker: Robert Oliver Simon, Technical University of Munich, Germany

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 13:

• Selection of the best adapted legume types for relay intercropping in durum wheat
  Speaker: Federico Leoni, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
• Promoting long-term durability in disease control: a framework for managing varietal diversity and identifying varieties with potential durable resistance
  Speaker: Florence Dubs, INRA, France
• On-farm research to explore the impact of increasing diversity: the case of soft wheat combining intra-varietal diversity with legume association for modern and landrace varieties
  Speaker: Antoine Marin, INRA, France
• Development of genetic models to breed for mixed cropping systems
  Speaker: Benedikt Haug, FiBL, Switzerland
• An interdisciplinary approach to increase wheat within-field diversity and promote agro-ecosystem services
  Speaker: Jérome Enjalbert, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 14:

• Design and assessment of diversified low input cropping systems in southwestern France: an application of agroecological principles aiming at decreasing pesticides and N-fertilizer use
  Speaker: Eric Justes, CIRAD, France
• Can the APSIM crop growth model simulate the growth of pure cultures and intercrops of wheat and faba bean in temperate zones in Europe?
  Speaker: Herman Nicolaas Cornelis Berghuijs, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Soybean as a diversification crop for western France: using intercropping to mitigate risks linked to the introduction of a new crop.
  Speaker: Timothée Cheriere, INRA, France
• Optimizing organic lentil crops in Sweden
  Speaker: Nicolas Carton, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Analysis and design of strip cropping systems
  Speaker: Dirk van Apeldoorn, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 15:

• The perceived or realised practical restrictions imposed by plant teams
  Speaker: Charlotte Bickler, ORC, United Kingdom
• Emmer and einkorn as the means of diversification in organic farming under marginal conditions
  Speaker: Szilvia Bencze, ÖMKi, Hungary
• Hemp, a borderline crop to diversify Sicilian food systems
  Speaker: Luca Colombo, FIRAB, Italy
• Supporting crop diversification within or outside the dominant agro-food regime: different barriers for different strategies
  Speaker: Kevin Morel, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Motivations and observed benefits and limits from farmers growing legumes
  Speaker: Elise Pelzer, INRA, France
• Documenting crop diversification experiences across Europe - the DiverIMPACTS Expert Survey
  Speaker: Dóra Drexler, ÖMKi, Hungary
• Implementing applied research and development approaches for crop diversification in French arable farming: a strategic view from the French oil and protein farmers' applied research institute Terres Inovia
  Speaker: David Gouache, Terres Inovia, France
• Why and how farmers change their practices towards crop diversification: examples from a case study in France
  Speaker: Eva Revoyron, INRA, France

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 16:

• Moving beyond competition in crop diversification niches
  Speaker: Barbara Koole, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• The up-stream agro-food value chain actors relationship role in crop diversification adoption. A case from the Italian food valley
  Speaker: Eleonora Sofia Rossi, University of Tuscia, Italy
• The role of legume product development and consumption on transitioning towards a nutrition-friendly, sustainable diet
  Speaker: Marta Vasconcelos, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
• How do bakery value chain downstream's actors pull farmers to diversify their cropping systems? The Mulino Bianco^® Italian brand case study
  Speaker: Lorenzo Fosci, University of Tuscia, Italy

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The following oral presentations will take place in session 17:

• Modelling crop-weed canopies as a tool to investigate the role of crop diversification in agroecological cropping systems
  Speaker: Stéphane Cordeau, INRA, France
• The DiverIMPACTS set of indicators for the sustainability assessment of crop diversification
  Speaker: Stefano Canali, CREA, Italy
• SYSTERRE^®, an online tool to describe diversified cropping systems, to calculate their performances, and assess their sustainability
  Speaker: Clotilde Toqué, ARVALIS, France
• Current dominant crop sequences across EU: a typology based on LUCAS dataset
  Speaker: Rémy Ballot, INRA, France
• Integrated assessment and modelling of the impacts of cropping system diversification from field to landscape and agro-chain levels: the MAELIA multi-agent platform
  Speaker: Rui Catarino, INRA, France
• Assessing area suitable for diversification crops: an example on soybean in Europe under climate change using machine learning
  Speaker: Nicolas Guilpart, INRA, France
• New interactive front-end tools for visualizing and analysing data from quantitative and qualitative surveys: application to Crop Diversification Experiences across Europe
  Speaker: Frédéric Vanwindekens, CRA-W, Belgium

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