Mixed cover cropping with Rye and Bellbeans benefits agroecosystems by interspecies interactions.

Mixing broccoli and lettuce in an intercrop creates complementary patterns of resource use.

Introducing flowering plants into agroecosystems increases pollen and nectar resources that stimulate populations of the natural enemies of insect pests.

Conventional strawberry production systems depend more heavily on nonrenewable energy and industrial inputs than organic systems.

The Cajete terrace system of collecting water and reducing soil erosion has been in use since pre-Hispanic times (1000 B.C.). Particularly important in present agriculture practices where people must grow their food on steep, erosion prone slopes.

Using cover crops, intercropping and other techniques of organic farming to grow taro (Colocasia esculenta) to determine economic sustainability and improved soil quality.

Biological control of stemborers in Africa provides a sustainable solution for crop damaged crops.

Green manures and cover crops, IPM, manuring, agroforestry and organic horticulture alternatives are developed, tested and transferred through participatory adoption processes with farmers.

Milpa in Yucatan is an intercropping system of corn, beans, lima beans and squash that is managed through slash and burn with fallow periods and the use of mulch.

Corn (maize), Bean and Squash polyculture cropping system.