eprintid: 23939 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 1251 dir: disk0/00/02/39/39 datestamp: 2014-10-30 14:19:55 lastmod: 2023-07-07 09:41:45 status_changed: 2014-10-30 14:19:55 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show doclang: en publishedas: urn:nbn:de:gbv:253-201407-dn053621-1 projects: TILMAN-ORG projects: at-fibl projects: ch-fibl-advice projects: ch-fibl-soil projects: ch-fibl-sustainability-climate projects: fr-isara projects: int-conf-owc-2014-research confdates: 13-15 October 2014 conference: 4th ISOFAR Scientific Conference at the Organic World Congress 2014 confloc: Istanbul, Turkey refereed: yes seriesno: 20 budget: 0 publicfulltext: TRUE presentationtype: paper creators_name: Casagrande, Marion creators_name: Peigne, Joséphine creators_name: David, Christophe creators_name: Sans, Francesc Xavier creators_name: Blanco-Moreno, José Manuel creators_name: Cooper, Julia creators_name: Gascoyne, Kate creators_name: Antichi, Daniele creators_name: Bàrberi, Paolo creators_name: Bigongiali, Federica creators_name: Surböck, Andreas creators_name: Kranzler, Andreas creators_name: Beeckman, Annelies creators_name: Willekens, Koen creators_name: Luik, Anne creators_name: Peetsmann, Elen creators_name: Grosse, Meike creators_name: Heß, Jürgen creators_name: Clerc, Maurice creators_name: Dierauer, Hansueli creators_name: Mäder, Paul creators_id: mcasagrande@isara.fr creators_id: peigne@isara.fr creators_id: davidc@isara.fr creators_id: fsans@ub.edu creators_id: jmblanco@ub.edu creators_id: julia.cooper@ncl.ac.uk creators_id: kate.gascoyne@ncl.ac.uk creators_id: daniele.antichi@avanzi.unipi.it creators_id: barberi@sssup.it creators_id: f.bigongiali@gmail.com creators_id: andreas.surboeck@fibl.org creators_id: andreas.kranzler@fibl.org creators_id: annelies.beeckman@inagro.be creators_id: koen.willekens@ilvo.vlaanderen.be creators_id: anne.luik@emu.ee creators_id: elen.peetsmann@emu.ee creators_id: meike.grosse@uni-kassel.de creators_id: jurgen.hess@uni-kassel.de creators_id: maurice.clerc@fibl.org creators_id: hansueli.dierauer@fibl.org creators_id: paul.maeder@fibl.org title: ORGANIC FARMERS IN EUROPE: MOTIVATIONS AND PROBLEMS FOR USING CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE PRACTICES. "TILMAN-ORG Session" ispublished: pub subjects: 1surveys subjects: 4social subjects: 4tillage subjects: 9weed keywords: Organic agriculture, Conservation tillage, TILMAN-ORG, reduced tillage abstract: As conservation agriculture and organic farming are currently considered as environmentally friendly options for producing food, this study explores the motivations and problems of organic European farmers that apply at least two of the following techniques: (i) no-tillage, (ii) reduced tillage and/or (iii) green manures conservation practices. We carried out a survey about motivations and problems of 159 farmers located in 10 European countries with a questionnaire with closed-ended questions. Data were analysis with a principal component analysis followed by clustering to identify groups of farmers that share the same type of motivations and problems. The most important motivations are related to soil preservation concerns and problems are mainly linked to agronomic conditions and crop management. There are three groups of farmers that share the same type of attitude: “atypical farmers”, “soil conservationists” and “agro-technically challenged farmers”. According to this study, research may address in priority agronomic problems, such as weed infestation, caused by adoption of conservation agriculture in organic agriculture. date: 2014-10 date_type: published series: Thuenen Report publication: Building Organic Bridges volume: 1 publisher: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut editors_name: Rahmann, G. editors_name: Aksoy, U. full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Braunschweig, Germany pagerange: 295-298 id_number: 10.3220/REP_20_1_2014 isbn: 978-3-86576-128-6 contact_email: mcasagrande@isara.fr conf_subm: not_subm voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Organic agriculture voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Conservation tillage voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: survey methods voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Motivation voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: farmers voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15911 voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33445 voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330972 voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4953 voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2805 fp7_project: yes fp7_project_id: 249667 access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess citation: Casagrande, Marion; Peigne, Joséphine; David, Christophe; Sans, Francesc Xavier; Blanco-Moreno, José Manuel; Cooper, Julia; Gascoyne, Kate; Antichi, Daniele; Bàrberi, Paolo; Bigongiali, Federica; Surböck, Andreas; Kranzler, Andreas; Beeckman, Annelies; Willekens, Koen; Luik, Anne; Peetsmann, Elen; Grosse, Meike; Heß, Jürgen; Clerc, Maurice; Dierauer, Hansueli and Mäder, Paul (2014) ORGANIC FARMERS IN EUROPE: MOTIVATIONS AND PROBLEMS FOR USING CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE PRACTICES. "TILMAN-ORG Session". In: Rahmann, G. and Aksoy, U. (Eds.) Building Organic Bridges, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany, 1, Thuenen Report, no. 20, pp. 295-298. document_url: /id/eprint/23939/1/23939_revised%20version_MM.pdf