*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Prof. Rattan Lal about
being awarded an Honorary Degree.
Warmest congratulations to Prof. Lal for this well-deserved recognition.
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*Global CA-CoP*
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*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems *(more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).
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From: Lal, Rattan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Lecture on Conservation Agriculture
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Amir,
I was an invited speaker at the 54th Nobel Conference held in St Peter, MN
on 2-3rd October. I also met Don Reicosky there.
I was awarded an Honorary Degree, and given below is the link to the event
and my lecture which is mostly on conservation agriculture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbSzIojsRQ&index=5&list=PLHuAoPzfQhGGKQhGpPo8hWwUwqk3rOzlN&t=0s
You may share it with the Conservation Agriculture Community.
Best regards
Rattan Lal
Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science
Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
President, International Union of Soil Sciences
Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Phone: 614-292-9069
Fax: 614-292-7432
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