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Reduced tillage and green manures for sustainable organic cropping systems – TILMAN-ORG
Funding: CORE Organic II Funding Bodies, being partners of the FP7 ERA-Net project CORE Organic II.
Duration: 2011–2014
Project coordinator: Dr. Paul Mäder, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Deputy coordinator: Dr. Christophe David, ISARA, France
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The overall goals of the project Reduced tillage and green manures for sustainable organic cropping systems – TILMAN-ORG were to design improved organic cropping systems with: enhanced productivity and nutrient use efficiency, more efficient weed management and increased biodiversity, but lower carbon footprints. The project ran from 2011 to 2014 and was funded in the framework of CORE Organic II. The contents of this website are not updated. More ...
The key outcomes of the project are listed below.
TILMAN-ORG: Key results
The results of TILMAN-ORG are encouraging for organic farmers and advisors to apply reduced tillage and green manures. When applying reduced tillage, green manures are a good strategy to control weeds. Overall, yields were not impeded substantially under an adjusted fertilisation regime, and weeds can be controlled. Further research and development is needed to synchronise nutrient supply and demand, to improve the machinery and to adapt a farm-specific reduced tillage system to keep weeds controlled in the long-term. More about the TILMAN-ORG results
TILMAN-ORG project flyers
In the first TILMAN-ORG flyer (739.9 KB) the project aims and partners are described.
The second TILMAN-ORG project flyer (7.1 MB) shows how the implementation of reduced tillage practices in European organic farming systems was addressed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from 11 European countries.
TILMAN-ORG publications on Organic Eprints
Papers and publications from TILMAN-ORG are available at the Organic Eprints archive at http://orgprints.org/view/projects/TILMAN-ORG.html.
TILMAN-ORG technical notes
Two technical notes on reduced tillage and earthworms were produced in the framework of the TILMAN-ORG project. See more
TILMAN-ORG videos
A wide variety of videos were produced by the TILMAN-ORG project. Click here to watch them.
Article in International Innovation
In the article "Green fingers", the core team of TILMAN-ORG, Drs Paul Mäder, Christophe David and Julia Cooper, discuss their aims to develop organic farming and conservation agricultural practices through the TILMAN-ORG project, and what challenges must be overcome.
