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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the  European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No.136 (Nov.
2021).

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture

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URL: https://ecaf.org/
URL: http://www.caa-ap.org/



*Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an ecological approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and ecosystem 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/or perennials, including legumes and cover
crops).* *These
practices are complemented with other complementary good agricultural
production and land management practices to generate and sustain optimum
performance.*



*CA 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.
CA systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to optimally harness a
range of productivity, economic, environmental, and social benefits as well
as address local and global concerns related to food and water security,
climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and smallholder agricultural
development.*



*Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage, Low tillage and Minimum Tillage are
not CA, and nor is No-Till on its own. For a practice or a method to be
referred to as a CA practice or method, it must be part of a CA system. If
not, then it is what it is, a practice or a method similar to any other
with its own* *name e.g., no-till seeding, or mulching, or crop
diversification, etc* (more at: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
).




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From: PANAGOS Panos (JRC-ISPRA) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 14:13
Subject: European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No.136 (Nov. 2021) -
https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/public_path/newsletter/202110.pdf
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ESDAC: http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu     ESDAC Newsletter No *136*
(November 2021)









Land degradation debt
<https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/land-degradation-debt>* data*

We provide data for global land degradation in a ‘debt’ based approach.
Environmental Debt is the difference between the natural potential
condition and the current condition. Naturally, there could be 4.6 Gha of
tree cover but currently there are only 3.2 Gha (Global *tree cover debt is
1.4 Gha*). The natural rate of *soil erosion* would be 10 Gt per year, but
currently, it is 36 Gt (debt is 26 Gt – rising). *Above-ground biomass *would
be naturally  871 Gt C, but currently, it is only 601 Gt C (debt 270 Gt C).
 *Below-ground carbon*, naturally, there would be 899 Gt C, but currently,
there are only 863 Gt C (Debt 36 Gt C). This study
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15830> contributes to the
developments towards an improvement of Land Degradation Methodologies
<https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/themes/land-degradation>.

Data: https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/land-degradation-debt












EU Soil Observatory (EUSO) Stakeholders Forum
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/other-event/euso-stakeholders-forum>:
19-21 October 2021

The JRC has organised the first ever EU Soil Observatory (EUSO)
Stakeholders Forum. This three-day event reflected the challenges facing
soil within the various strategies of the Green Deal and Horizon Europe’s
proposed Mission on Soil Health and Food. The event was followed by 274
participants in Webex and more than 2,000 people in streaming. The
programme was *recorded* and you can follow it here
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/other-event/euso-stakeholders-forum>.
The forum established five *Working Groups*: soil monitoring, soil
pollution, soil biodiversity, data integration, soil erosion. If you are
interested to participate in any of the WG, please send an e-mail to the
moderator or to the functional mail *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>* by 29.11.21. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/
en/page/presentations-1st-euso-stakeholders-forum-189661
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/page/presentations-1st-euso-stakeholders-forum-189661>










 First Young Soil Researchers Forum
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/euso/euso-stakeholders-forum/first-euso-stakeholders-forum-young-soil-researchers-forum>:
Special issue open.

The EU Soil Observatory Stakeholders Forum organized a 2.5-hours event with
*young* scientists on five topics: soil biodiversity, soil erosion, soil
contamination, data and soil organic carbon. The 100 young scientists who
submitted an abstract for the EUSO forum are invited to submit their
manuscript to an EUSO dedicated Special issue in the *European Journal of
Soil Science *https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652389










EU Soil Strategy for 2030
<https://ec.europa.eu/environment/strategy/soil-strategy_en>: reaping
benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature and climate

The new EU Soil Strategy sets out a framework and concrete measures for the
protection, restoration and sustainable use of soils, in synergy with other
European Green Deal policies. It also  sets a vision and objectives to
achieve healthy soils by 2050 and announces a new Soil Health Law by 2023.
Key actions include: the promotion of Sustainable Soil Management, boosting
the circular economy, restoration of degraded soils, prevent
desertification, increase of research, the monitoring of soil and
associated data collection, mitigation and adaption in relation to Climate
change and the mobilisation of societal engagement and financial resources

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/publications/eu-soil-strategy-2030_en










Copper accumulation and export in European vineyard Soils
<https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/copper-distribution-topsoils>

Copper-based fungicides are used in European (EU) vineyards to prevent
fungal diseases. Soil physicochemical properties locally govern the
variation of the total copper content in vineyards. Using a machine
learning model, a study <https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02093>
found that the main variables to predict the Cu distribution in EU
vineyards are precipitation, aridity and soil organic carbon. The estimated
average net accumulation and net export of Cu in topsoil in European
vineyards are respectively 24.8 and 0.29 kg Cu ha−1. Data:
https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/copper-distribution-topsoils












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