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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see the link herebelow for the article in Scientific American by
David Montgomery on:
3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture

Myths get in the way of our ability to restore degraded soils that can feed
the world using fewer chemicals.

By David R. Montgomery
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/david-r-montgomery/>, The
Conversation <https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/the-conversation/>
on April 5, 2017
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-big-myths-about-modern-agriculture1/

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



*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 much 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. Conservation Tillage and Minimum Tillage
are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at:
www.fao.org/ag/ca).

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