“This strategy can contribute significantly to the specific European Union Green Deal Farm to Fork<\/a> objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, chemical pesticide use, and synthetic fertiliser use,” commented first author Marcela Porto Costa, of Bangor University in the UK. “For example, in Scotland, we’ve shown that the introduction of a legume crop into the typical rotation reduced external nitrogen requirements by almost half whilst maintaining the same output of food measured in terms of potential human nutrition.”<\/p>\n