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The key results from WP1-6 have been processed and now delivered in the form of easily accessible end-user material, using both the EIP-Agri common format, but also a friendlier layout which includes pictures, drawings, and shorter sections. A list of 29 of these fact sheets has just been published on this site. These are the titles:

1. Intercropping grain-legumes and cereals for improved protein concentration in cereals

2. Improving crop yield stability by intercropping 

3. Services expected by farmers from intercropping practices

4. Must sowing density of intercropping be half of the two sole crops density for providing good performance?

5. Designing mixtures to control weed pressure

6. Species mixtures for lentil production in Germany

7. Principles of design of intercropping

8. Wheat-lentil in South-West France

9. Overview of intercropping practices in Europe

10. RDP Measure 16.2 to overcome barriers of the approach

11. Designing mixtures to suppress airborne pathogens

12. To N-fertilize cereal-legume intercrops or not?

13. Pea breeding for intercropping with cereals

14. Farmer participation improves blue-lupin oat species mixtures for local protein production and weed control in organic farming

15. Testing soil for legume fatigue

16. Intercropping maize with barley to reduce wireworm damage

17. Effect of broccoli-vetch intercropping on the incidence of pests in broccoli

18. The lucerne, one the most used living mulches

19. Living mulches, common sainfoin

20. White clover, a well-adapted species for living mulches

21. Red clover, a vigorous cover crop

22. Living mulches: regulation in the wheat grown in conventional farming

23. Living mulches: what are the challenges?

24. Living mulches: when and how to establish them

25. Living mulches: how to choose species according to the context and objectives

26. Living mulches: management in conventional wheat farming

27. The economic impact of integrating living mulch in a crop rotation

28. Living mulch of lucerne for the cultivation of soft wheat in organic farming

29. Optimising legume intercropping for pollinators