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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the latest issue of the SWCS Conservation News Briefs.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

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*Global CA-CoP*

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



*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/or 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, Reduced Tillage and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation
Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at:
http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture).

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*Conservation NewsBriefs is a weekly compilation of news stories of
interest to SWCS members and stakeholders. The opinions expressed herein
are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official policy of
the Soil and Water Conservation Society unless otherwise stated. The
products mentioned herein are not endorsed by the Soil and Water
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Associated Press via USA Today
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The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change annual report
stresses the need to quickly and drastically change how the world manages
land. To fight climate change, University of Virginia environmental
scientist Deborah Lawrence says sustainable strategies should be less like
a silver bullet, narrowly hitting a single target, and more like a silver
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For the environmentally minded carnivore, meat poses a culinary conundrum.
Producing it requires a great deal of land and water resources, and
ruminants like cows and sheep are responsible for half of all greenhouse
gas emissions associated with agriculture, according to the World Resources
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Numbers released Aug. 12 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirm what
many Ohio farmers already knew — the weather has made this the state's
worst planting season on record. At 15.1%, Ohio had the highest rate
nationally of acreage on which insured farmers were prevented from planting
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plants rustle in the breeze as the scent of fragrant herbs wafts across the
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Environment 360
A cereal and beers are now being made with a new variety of perennial grain
known as Kernza. Proponents say this marks a significant advance for a new
agriculture that borrows from the wild prairie and could help ensure
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The soil beneath our feet is getting poorer and on many farms worldwide,
there is less and less of it. With soil on farms slowly vanishing, it is
getting increasingly difficult to grow food. "Follow the Food" — a new
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The Santa Rita Hills, nestled in Santa Barbara County, are ideal for pinot
noir, a notoriously finicky grape. That's why Kathy Joseph came here to
plant Fiddlestix Vineyard. Neighboring grape vines extend to the west as
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State Extension via No-Till Farmer
Cover crops are especially key after corn silage to protect the soil from
erosion, remediate soil compaction caused by harvest traffic, make soil
resist manure spreading traffic later, spread manure over the fall and
winter so nutrients are not going to waste, provide weed control, and
possibly use some of the cover for forage or grazing purposes. Cover crops
are also important for the same reasons after crops harvested for grain.
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Large-scale, industrial agriculture is often held up as the solution for
feeding the world's growing population. But small farms — with about 25
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