We are interested in collaborating with partners from agriculture, farmers, field trials and machine learning on a proposal. Our research project within the topic of INTERCROPPING will address the following aspects:
(1) the role of intercropping in developing agronomic practices serving to increase resilience, water conservation and to drastically reduce the use of chemical inputs,
(2) the monitoring of intercropping across Europe using remote sensing and machine learning,
(3) understand the role of intercropping for Europe to manage soil and water to improve soil health and significantly reduce erosion, maintain and increase carbon storage, optimise nutrient cycles and reduce the use of contentious chemicals, and
(4) promote crop diversification.

The Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich is one of Germany’s universities of excellence and one of the largest universities in Germany. The Department of Geography’s mission is to explore, understand and frame changes in the interrelation of humans and nature globally, regionally and locally. This includes e.g. climate change, its impact on nature and societies and different ways to mitigate and adapt. The working group on Nexus research has the ambition to create an innovative, internationally renowned, scientifically top notch and extraordinarily well-connected core of activities on nexus questions at the Department of Geography of LMU. This includes the relationships and interdependencies of the four systems: water, food, energy and nature. The members of our working group also have a profound knowledge in remote sensing, crop modelling, and machine learning.