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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see below the announcement in Nature that China agriculture minister
to head UN agency -- Food and Agriculture Organization.
China agriculture minister to head UN agency
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=d29fedb7a6&e=d012f6307e>

Qu Dongyu — a biologist, farmer’s son and China’s vice-minister of
agriculture and rural affairs — will be the next head of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=83f75a593e&e=d012f6307e>.
Qu has said that his priorities will include improving agriculture in
tropical countries — where poverty and hunger are rampant — and helping
arid countries to address the agricultural challenges that come with
drought and water shortages.
Nature | 2 min read
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=23b1cb95cc&e=d012f6307e>

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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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