RobustGemüse – Resilience in Organic Vegetable Farming – Development and Testing of Strategies and Innovations Through Applied Research

Project start date

12/2025

Project end date

11/2028

Project Objective

The objective of the project is to strengthen resilience in organic vegetable farming. The focus is on practical solutions: research questions are developed jointly by practitioners, consultants and researchers and are tested on vegetable farms, with the goal of making organic vegetable farming more resilient and adaptable in the long term – ecologically, economically, and organizationally. Approaches are tested and further developed based on farm-specific trials, as well as through applied research networks that collaboratively address specific challenges related to individual crops or in particular regions. In addition, trials are conducted on cultivation methods involving mulch and cover crops, as well as on preventive plant protection measures. The Center for Organic Farming focuses on the cultivation of new crops and the evaluation of cultivation methods such as strip till and legume undersowing.

At a glance

Project Partners

  • Öko-BeratungsGesellschaft mbH
  • Bioland Praxisforschung GmbH
  • Demeter Beratung e.V.
  • Leibniz Institute for Horticultural Sciences (IGZ)
  • University of Kassel – Section Organic Farming and Cropping Systems (FÖL)
  • DBFZ – German Biomass Research Center, non-profit GmbH
  • Centre for Business Management in Horticulture and Applied Research (ZBG)
  • Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
  • University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde
  • KATZ Biotech AG
  • Hesse State Agricultural Agency (LLH)
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture

Funding