Addressing water scarcity, soil degradation, and shifting weather patterns is of primary importance to ensure long-term food security.
In this talk, I will describe intercropping-an ancient and complementary alternative to monoculture farming-known for its lower input
requirements and often comparable yields. For intercropping to be widely adopted, it's essential to evaluate its controllability,
effectiveness and resilience. Based on a dataset regrouping the results of thousands of experiments, this talk aims to lay quantitative
foundations of intercropping design and control.While further experiments are necessary before computational tools can reliably guide
this practice, the presented findings mark an initial step toward sustainable multi-species agriculture.