*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see herebelow the film *Living Soil *released by the Soil Health
Institute.
Apologies for any cross-posting.
*Amir Kassam *
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*Global CA-CoP*
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*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 much 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 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 and Minimum Tillage
are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at:
www.fao.org/ag/ca).
60-minute documentary on soil health released
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*Living Soil* Film Released!
Today, the Soil Health Institute released *Living Soil*, a 60-minute
documentary about soil health featuring innovative farmers and soil health
experts from throughout the U.S. The film is freely available to download
and stream at www.livingsoilfilm.com
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Accompanying lesson plans for college and high school students will be
available on World Soil Day on December 5th. A link to the full press
release can be found here
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*Living Soil: A Documentary for All of Us*
Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, they will
be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years.
They filter our water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs
for sequestering carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they
are vibrantly alive, teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every
acre. Yet in the last 150 years, we’ve lost half of the basic building
block that makes soil productive. The societal and environmental costs of
soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are now estimated to
be as high as $85 billion every single year. Like any relationship, our
living soil needs our tenderness. It’s time we changed everything we
thought we knew about soil. Let’s make this the century of living soil.
This documentary was directed by Chelsea Myers and Tiny Attic Productions
based in Columbia, Missouri, and produced by the Soil Health Institute
through the generous support of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
A special thanks to Dawn Bentley, Brian Berns, Keith Berns, Bill Buckner,
Mimo Davis, Dan DeSutter, Miranda Duschak, James “Ooker” Eskridge, Barry
Fisher, Liz Graznak, Steve Groff, Jerry Hatfield, Trey Hill, Larkin Martin,
Bianca Moebius-Clune, Jesse Sanchez, Larry Thompson, John Wiebold, Kristen
Veum, Kevin Mathein, Ben Harris, Tim Pilcher, Josh Wright, Haley Myers, Rob
Myers and Josh Oxenhandler.
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