*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow an press release from the University of Western Australia regarding the Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique being awarded a prestigious Friendship Award at a ceremony in Beijing. The Friendship Award is the highest award established by the Chinese Central Government to recognise foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to China's modernisation and reform. Professor Siddique is also a promoter of Conservation Agriculture. Warmest congratulations for this well deserved award. *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). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The UWA Institute of Agriculture <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 08:58 Subject: UWA Media Release: Agricultural expert receives highest honour from the People's Republic of China To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> [image: University of Western Australia Logo] UWA Media Release Agricultural expert receives highest honour from the People's Republic of China Director of The University of Western Australia’s Institute of Agriculture, Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique, has been awarded a prestigious Friendship Award at a ceremony in Beijing. 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