*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management *
*Alert No. 68 (22 July 2021)*
*1. **The agroecological transition of agricultural systems in the
Global South. Edited by F-X, Cote et al. AFD and CIRAD (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/o0kwqy61v8o4zcx/Agrecological%20transition%20in%20the%20Global%20South%20CIRAD-FAO.pdf?dl=0>
*2. **Agri-Hire in Sub-Saharan Africa: Business models for investing in
sustainable mechanization. By Karim Houmy et al. FAO Investment Centre
(2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/72j1n4rutm95y53/AGRI-HIRE%20IN%20SUB-SAHARAN%20AFRICABUSINESS%20MODELS%20FOR%20INVESTING%20%20IN%20SUSTAINABLE%20MECHANIZATION.pdf?dl=0>
*3. **Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 3: Adoption and
Spread. Edited by A.H. Kassam, Burleigh Dodds, Cambridge, UK (September
2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr2junojr6rarp1/Conservation%20Agriculture%20Vol%203-Final.pdf?dl=0>
*4. **Design, fabrication and assessment of direct seeder in Benin
Republic. By Ephrème Dossavi Dayou et al. AgricEngInt: CIGR Journal (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzlg9cwjisa1ql8/Direct%20seeder%20in%20Benin.pdf?dl=0>
*5. **Farmer-led Regenerative Agriculture for Africa. By Lunn-Rockliffe
et al. Institute for Global Study, London (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/h8dldk10oh9illc/igp_ra_for_africa_report_2020.pdf?dl=0>
*6. **Mapping farmer perceptions, Conservation Agriculture practices and
on-farm measurements: The role of systems thinking in the process of
adoption. By Baqir Lalani et al. Agricultural Systems 191 (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/5v90okm1x1d7rsp/Lalani_et_al_2021-1.pdf?dl=0>
*7. **Climate reality check 2020: 20 Understandings, observations and
insights. By David Pratt et al. Breakthrough – National Centre for Climate
Restoration (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfg7gmxgs03o0io/Reality%20check%202020%20Climate%20change.pdf?dl=0>
*8. **Reorienting Indian Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities. By
R.S. Paroda. CABI, Wallingford, UK (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/l73f2xxuojoclqm/Reorienting%20Indian%20Agriculture_Dr%20RS%20Paroda.pdf?dl=0>
*9. **Pesticides in a case study on no‑tillage farming systems and
surrounding forest patches in Brazil. By Karlo Alves da Silva et al. Nature
Portfolio. Scientific Reports (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iud0qh0zr0x9ge/Silva_et_al-2021-Scientific_Reports.pdf?dl=0>
*10. **The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. Transforming
food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy
diets for all. FAO, Rome (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/182cysx19htdr5n/SOFA%202021.pdf?dl=0>
*11. **Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food
Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA): Lessons and Way Forward.
By Erin Wilkus et al. ACIAR (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/56daf3mc1j2tpee/Sustainable_intensification_maize-legume_systems.pdf?dl=0>
*12. **Manual on Conservation Agriculture and Scale Appropriate
Agricultural Mechanization in Smallholder Systems. By Yadvinder-Singh et
al. CIMMYT (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/goyjqepnvjdkqsk/Traning_Manual_CA%20and%20Mechanization_ML%20Jat_CIMMYT-1.pdf?dl=0>
*13. **The United Nations World Water Development Report 2021: Water and
Climate Change. UNESCO (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/eblxn4v0mbhpkjd/UN%20Water%20%26%20Climate%20Change%202020.pdf?dl=0>
*14. **Why do medium- and large-scale farmers succeed practicing CA and
small-scale farmers often do not? – experiences from Paraguay. Rolf Derpsch
et al. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2015).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4rsywzv2qk8n5b/Why_do_medium-_and_large-scale_farmers_.....Published_Article_IJAS_2015-1.pdf?dl=0>
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*Global CA-CoP*
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
*Conservation Agriculture 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 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
Agriculture systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to 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 Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its
own* (more at: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture).
The latest (2015/16) CA area information available from: *Global spread of
Conservation Agriculture. By A. Kassam et al. International Journal of
Environmental Studies. Published Online (2018).
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfpkexyerbcs9n5/Global%20spread%20of%20C%20paper%20Corrected%20GENV_A_1494927_O.pdf?dl=0>*
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