Report on barriers and opportunities towards intercropping

This deliverable will include the Report on barriers and opportunities towards intercropping. This deliverable will showcase the knowledge gap between research and practices, thus supporting the work in subsequent research and experimental activities and dissemination work. Building on the Innovation Partnership, a Farm-level survey (online questionnaires or interviews) will be carried out to identify farmers’ opportunities and barriers with respect to the adoption of intercropping practices. A representative sample of more than 200 respondents will be reached in each of the 9 participatory countries (TOTAL 1800 respondents). The survey results will guide field experiments and the study of decision-making in WP7. Another survey will be carried out among agricultural advisors and knowledge providers working with farmers. This survey will be built on the initial survey, and aims at understanding the current state of knowledge, and recommended practices for intercropping. The results will reveal traditional and innovative patterns for advising farmers and provide findings on what practices be recommended in different settings. The results will support the training activities in WP8 as well. ENG --> related to Task 2.2 but also in part to Task 7.2 and Task 8.4.