Transformative mixed culture systems for One Health

The aim of the LOEWE priority "Transformative Mixed Crop Systems for One Health" (TRIO) is to develop sustainable and climate-resilient cropping systemsthrough the ecological and functional intensification of arable farming.

Scientists at the University of Kassel , under the leadership of the Department of Organic Agriculture and Plant Cultivation, together with departments at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Hochschule Geisenheim University, are researching the integration of deep-rooted medicinal and aromatic plants into agricultural crop rotations in order to make them more resilient to extreme weather conditions caused by climate change.

Higher root biomass and flowering aspects of spice plants favor the storage of carbon in the soil and contribute to the promotion of biodiversity in the cultivated landscape.

The increase in production and quality through the intensification of ecological processes, which is modeled here as an example for Hesse, is geared towards the health of soil, plants, animals, people and the planet and thus follows the "One Health" approach.