The practice of growing two or more crops together is widespread
throughout the tropics and is becoming increasingly practised in
temperate agriculture. The benefits of nutrient exchange, reduced
weed competition and pathogen control can generate substantial
improvements in growth and yield. In this book John Vandermeer, a
leading worker on the subject, shows how classical ecological
principles, especially those relating to competition and population
ecology, can be applied to intercropping. Despite the large amount
of research activity directed towards the subject over the last 20
years, the practice of intercropping has, until now, received very
little serious academic attention. The Ecology of Intercropping is
unique in approaching the question of intercropping from a
theoretical point of view. In addition the details of the approach
will take as their starting point well-accepted ecological theory.
Using this basis the author shows how the approach can be used to
design and evaluate intercropping systems to improve agricultural
yields.
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