Using the potential of synergy – developing a tool to design ecosystems for a sustainable soil management

Using biomimicry approach, where cultivation and productivity are more dependent on intrinsic dynamics than on human/chemical inputs driven by fossil fuels.

To specifically target intrinsic, synergetic dynamics for agricultural systems and overcome difficulties linked to poor knowledge and hazardous trial-and-error processes for  intercropping, this is a proposal for an informatics tool to design adapted, efficient plant partnerships or clusters.

The tool consists of a prediction model that suggests potential win-win plant or other symbiotic relationships, flexible enough to exploit information about local soil/climatic conditions.