Save the date 7-9 October 2026
Mixing crops for agroecology

Mixing crops, varieties, disciplines and know-hows, for agroecology

International and interdisciplinary scientific symposium on the value of mixtures of varieties and species for agroecology - co-organized by MoBiDiv, IntercropVALUES and IPMORAMA.

Save the Date - International Meeting on Agroecology | Paris-Saclay, 7-9th  October2025

We are pleased to invite you to save the date for an international meeting on:

Mixing crops, varieties, disciplines and know-hows, for agroecology

  • Paris-Saclay
  • 7-9th October 2026
  • Registrations and call for abstracts coming soon!

This event is organized in the frame of the MoBiDiv, IPMORAMA, and IntercropValues projects. It will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines (from genetics to economics) to explore how within field diversity can contribute to the agroecological transition..The symposium will be organized into an inter-disciplinary plenary day, followed by two days of parallel sessions.

Parallel sessions:

  • Breeding for mixing ability
  • Mixtures and pathogen evolution
  • Within-field diversity and the extended phenotype
  • Mixture design through ideotying
  • Modeling plant-plant interactions
  • Blends for transformative research
  • ...

Invited speakers: 

  • Niels Anten,
  • Piter Bijma,
  • Nico Eisenhauer,
  • Jochem Evers,
  • Aurélien Tellier
  • ...

Stay tuned—more information coming shortly!