*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see herebelow two self-explanatory messages from Robert Peiretti
regarding a EDX Micro Master Course on No Till System at the Cordoba
National University, Argentina.
Thank you Roberto for sharing.
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*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. *
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From: Roberto Peiretti <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 21:34
Subject: EDX No Till System Course Leaflets
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>, Amir Kassam <
[log in to unmask]>
Hi Amir
I have worked with EDX representative People at Cordoba National University
jointly with Agronomy Faculty academic authorities in preparing a leaflet
promoting the EDX Micro Master Course related to the No Till System.
At the end of the day it is a Conservation Agriculture Course. But as you
know down here people do easily recognize The No Till System as equivalent
to CA. Also they clearly differentiate between just No Till as a technology
from the SYSTEMIC concept of No Till System. Many years ( around fifteen or
so ) during a Plenary Presentation that I was offering at an AAPRESID
annual meeting (as well as I frequently did within CAAPAS ), I strongly
presented and insisted emphatically that The No Till System was not
equivalent at all to "Planting Directly", but instead it was much more than
this been a truly system approach and operation. They should be understood
and implemented in practice under a systemic view and concept. Also, at
that time I was insisting on the main pillars of the System; namely: 1.
Avoiding tillage, 2. Soil covered as much as possible and 3.Crop diversity
and rotation.
Anyhow, the name issue deserves a common discussion aimed to
standardize the names around the world.
Amir, to this mail I am attaching the leaflets that were preparing in
collaboration with University, Faculty and EDX representatives
advertising the course.
If you feel it is appropriate and you send a message from CaCoP attaching
the leaflets and a brief comment, it surely will help a lot for more
colleagues, farmers and related people around the world to become aware of
its existence and eventually lead them to take the course. Already around
5000 people are taking the course ¡¡. I feel it represents a relevant
contribution to promote and scale up the adoption of CA principles around
the world. I feel happy for this and for having had the chance to actively
participate on the course ¡¡¡¡
Still if you can distribute it on Ca Cop, I am positive we will even
enlarge the reach and the people that take the course.
I have the pleasure of offering the opening class of the first course
"Historical Context of the No Till System....".The picture of the Leaflets
is mine and is a picture of my farm last season soy No Tilled on top of
Avena strigosa as cover crops.
Regarding the cost of the course and related issues, if you take the course
without evaluation of exams and not for credit IT IS FOR FREE. If you want
to take the course formally and be evaluated for credits, I was advised
that there is a fee. I do not know exactly how much but I was told it was
very moderate. It can be surely found by accessing and exploring on the
link written on the leaflets.
Hope you can distribute it. I discussed this possibility with the
University People and they were very keen, enthusiastic and gratefully in
advance to you for including the leaflets in a Ca Cop message reaching a
large number of colleagues, farmers and related people.
I attach the two versions, one in English and a second in Spanish. The
course was dictated in Spanish but with simultaneous written translation.
Personally, I thank you in advance for the eventual and valluable help that
you can surely offer to this effort.
I will be looking for your comments
Kind regards from your friend and colleague
Roberto
P/S
If you can figure out any other mean, site, colleagues, institutions etc.
that might be interested in knowing the existence of this course, please
feel free to share the leaflets.
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From: Roberto Peiretti <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 22:12
Subject: Additional Description of MicroMaster(R) course
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Hi to all
Dear colleagues:
I few days ago I sent to all of you a leaflet with the announcement of a
MicroMaster(R) EDX Program on the No Till System containing five courses
each, offered by Agriculture School of Cordoba National University.
Since the Courses and program was originally designed and dictated in
Spanish and the main language and hence uploaded into EDX in this language;
when you access to EDX platform by using the link provided on the leaflet,
the explanations appears mostly in spanish what surely means a idiomatic
barrier limitation to explore the introductory material.
As an attempt to overcome this limitation, an explanatory sheet in English
was prepared and I am sharing it with all of you.
Evn the courses are dictated in spanish, all of them are sub-titled in
English.
Hope this attached sheet helps.
Kind regards to all
Roberto
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