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Contact
Dr Paul Mäder
Head of the Department of Soil Sciences
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
Ackerstrasse 113
5070 Frick
Switzerland
Phone +41 865 7232
Fax +41 865 7273
Email paul.maeder(at)fibl.org
www.fibl.org
Personal webpage
Projects related to reduceed tillage
| Acronym | Project Title | Period | Funding body | Related topics | TILMAN members | Country | Key results | Complementarity | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QLIF | QualityLowInputFood Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and ‘low input’ food supply chains | 2004-2009 | FP6 | External inputs, Soil quality | FiBL, UNEW, LBI, ISARA | CH, UK, NL, F | Organic food has good quality; bottlenecks identified; long-term stability of soil quality | Soil stability and quality | www.qlif.org |
| NTOOLBOX | Toolbox of cost-effective strategies for on-farm reductions in N losses to water | 2009-2012 | FP7 | Modelling strategies for reduced N losses | LBI, UNEW | NL, UK | ongoing | Modelling tool will be used | cordis.europa.eu |
| BoFru | Steigerung der Wertschöpfung ökologisch angebauter Marktfrüchte durch Optimierung des Managements der Bodenfruchtbarkeit | 2008-2011 | BLE, BÖL | Crop rotations, reduced soil tillage, green manure, soil quality | WIZ, FiBL | DE, CH | ongoing | Tillage x green manure combination, effects of green manure incorporation | www.bodenfruchtbarkeit.org |
| NUE-CROPS | Improving nutrient use efficiency in major European food, feed and biofuel crops to reduce the negative environmental impact of crop production | 2009-2014 | FP7 | Testing of different off-farm inputs and crop response | UNEW, FiBL, WUR | UK, CH, NL | ongoing | Reduced soil tillage included in Nafferton field experiment | research.ncl.ac.uk |
| Pathorganic | Quality and safety of organically produced vegetables throughout the production chain | 2007-2011 | CORE ORG I | Product quality | FiBL, HMGU | CH, DE | ongoing | www.coreportal.org | |
| AgTec-Org | Agronomical and technological methods to improve organic wheat quality | 2007-2010 | CORE ORG I | Reduced tillage | ISARA, FiBL | F, CH | Lower wheat yield during conversion; lower N-contents of cereal grains in reduced tillage; baking quality | Long-term effects Carbon sequestration new experiment: tillage x green manure | www.coreportal.org |
| ENDURE | European Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection Strategies | 2007-2010 | FP6 | Diversifying crop protection | WUR, SSSA | NL, IT | Multicriteria analysis of cropping systems (incl. no-till and green manures). Weed control. Weed ecology and biodiversity in cropping systems. | Soil quality, innovative machines for non-chemical weed control, development of a weed traits database | www.endure-network.eu |
| BERAS | Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society | 2010-2013 | EU Centr. Baltic Interreg IV A | Green manure | EULS | EE, SE, FI, PL, DE, LV | ongoing | Soil stability and quality | www.jbd.se/beras |
| REDBIO | Un réseau transfrontalier d’expérimentation, d’échange et de transfert pour le développement de l’agriculture biologique en productions végétales au service des techniciens, des agriculteurs biologiques et des agriculteurs conventionnels | 2009-2011 | INTERREG-EU | Soil quality, plant bio-diversity, tillage, rotation, fertilisation | UB | ES, (F) | Technical constraints in organic systems. Organic farming enhances weed biodiversity | Farmers interviews, Weed community dynamics and functional diversity | www.redbio.net |
| SOLIBAM | Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding and Management | 2010-2014 | FP7 | Diversified cropping systems. Interaction between cultivars and green manures to improve organic farming systems | ORC, SSSA, CIRAA | UK, (F), IT | ongoing | Relation between species diversification and tillage system | www.solibam.eu |
| VEGINEO | Integrated and ecological vegetable production, development of sustainable farming systems focussing on high quality and minimum environmental impact | 1997-2001 | FAIR 3CT | Prototyping methodoogy | WUR-APR | NL, IT, ES, CH | Prototypes of integrated and organic vegetable production systems | Prototyping methodology | |
| PEPITES | Ecological, technical and social innovation processes in Conservation Agriculture | 2009-2012 | Agence National de la Recherche | Conservation agriculture | ISARA | FR, Brazil, Madagascar | ongoing | Multidisciplinary research on conservation agriculture in conventional and organic | www.projet-pepites.org |
| WECOF | Strategies of Weed Control in Organic Farming | 2000-2004 | FP5 | Crop architecture, allelopathy | DE, UK, PL, ES, IT | Strategies of Weed Control in Organic Farming | No consideration of the potentials for interaction with tillage | www.wecof.uni-bonn.de |
