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



*for sustainable agriculture and land management *



*Alert No. 57 (19 December 2018) *

*1.     **The adaptive capacity of maize-based Conservation Agriculture
systems to climate stress in tropical and sub-tropical environments: a
meta-regression analysis. By Peter Steward et al. Agricultural Ecosystems
and Environment 251: 194-202 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/gitjbl94k19gqzs/2%20The%20adaptive%20capacity%20of%20maize-based%20conservation%20agriculture%20systems%20to%20climate%20stress%20in%20tropical%20and%20subtropical%20environments%20A%20meta-regression%20of%20yields.pdf?dl=0>

*2.     **A Review of Tillage Practices and Their Potential to Impact the
Soi Carbon Dynamics. By Promil Mehra et al. Advances in Agronomy (2018)*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rl4glzlbyktrlf/2018Mehraetal-tillagepracticesandcarbondynamics.pdf?dl=0>

*3.     **Manual for smallholders’ Conservation Agriculture in rice-based
systems. By Enamul Haque et al. ACIAR and Murdoch University, Australia.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dlsqzupsx5altx/CA%20Manual%20Final%20Full%20File%20as%20PDF%20Smaller%20Size.pdf?dl=0>

*4.     **Listening to earthworms burrowing and roots growing – acoustic
signatures of soil biology activities. By Marine Lacoste et al. Scientific
Reports 8: 10236 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/agaov0ex2v1vugp/Earthworm%20burrowing%20s41598-018-28582-9.pdf?dl=0>



*5.     **Effects of agricultural management practices on soil quality: A
review oflong-term experiments for Europe and China. By Zhanguo Bai et al.
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 265: 1-7 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/5t4wgtz4ex9lebd/Effects%20of%20agricultural%20management%20practices%20on%20soil%20quality%20in%20Europe%20and%20China.pdf?dl=0>



*6.     **How Conservation Agriculture can mitigate greenhouse gas
emissions and enhance soil carbon storage in croplands. By Craig Drury et
al. Croplands Research Group/Conservation Agriculture Network. Global
Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (2017).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uc02eeusje226n/GRA-Conservation-Agriculture-Network-Brochure%20-%20Craig%20Drury%20CA%20mitigation%20of%20GHG.pdf?dl=0>




*7.     **Conservation Agriculture systems alter the electrical
characteristics (Eh, pH and EC) of four soil types in France. By Olivier
Husson et al. Soil & Tillage Research 176: 57-68 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/btbhdb5jp09wcks/Hussonetal.-2018-ConservationAgriculturesystemsaltertheelectricalcharacteristicsEhpHandECoffoursoiltypesinFranc.pdf?dl=0>



*8.     **Co-designing innovative cropping systems that match biophysical
and socio-economic diversity: The DATE approach to Conservation Agriculture
in Madagascar, Lao PDR and Cambodia. By Olivier Husson et al. Renewable
Agriculture and Food Systems (2016).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qukr1i53t9mfzox/HussonetalRAFS2015DATEapproach.pdf?dl=0>


<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qukr1i53t9mfzox/HussonetalRAFS2015DATEapproach.pdf?dl=0>

*9.     **Conservation Agriculture Improves Soil Quality, Crop Yield, and
Incomes of Smallholder Farmers in North Western Ghana. By Jesse Naab et al.
**Frontiers in Plant Science 8 (2017).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ommc5lobi4xs5p8/Jesse%20Naab%20CA%20in%20NW%20Ghana.pdf?dl=0>

*10.                        * *No-till banana planting on crop residue
mulch: Effect on soil quality and soil functioning. By Marc Dorel et al.
Fruits 65: 55–68 (2010).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdcp2t54d7vhjnv/No-till_banana_planting_on_crop_residue_mulch_Effe.pdf?dl=0>



*11.                        * *Durum wheat quality yield and sanitary
status under Conservation Agriculture. Francesco Calzarano et al.
Agriculture 8: 140-153 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/dm2rswnhtpw1szv/Pisante%20Durum%20wheat%20quality%20agriculture-08-00140.pdf?dl=0>



*12.                        * *The Conservation Agriculture road map for
India. Policy Brief. ICAR and CIMMYT. By M.L. Jat et al. (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0i2d3ni2d8xft3/Policy%20Brief%20on%20CA%20Roadmap%20for%20India.pdf?dl=0>



*13.                        * *Promotion of Conservation Agriculture in
East Timor. MoAF, FAO and USAID (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqq7uqq94uqid4q/Promotion%20of%20CA%20Booklet%20East%20Timor.pdf?dl=0>



*14.                        * *Sustainable intensification of China's
agroecosystems by Conservation Agriculture. By Rattan Lal. International
Soil and Water Conservation Research 6: 1-12 (2018)*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqffx14yoru7opn/Rattan%20Lal%20China%20CA.pdf?dl=0>

*15.                        * *Conservation Agriculture Approaches in
Banana to Improve Soil Quality and Farm Productivity. By S.N. Dash et al.
Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci. 7(3): 651-658 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/mcgky350y5szbhh/S.N.%20Dash%2C%20et%20al%20CA%20Banana%20systems.pdf?dl=0>

*16.                        * *Evaluation of long-term Conservation
Agriculture and crop intensification in rice-wheat rotation of
Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Carbon dynamics and productivity. By
S.K.Samal et al. European Journal of Agronomy 90: 198-208 (2017).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/de6jtckk7f39eyr/Samar%20et%20al%20Rice-Wheat%20in%20the%20IGP.pdf?dl=0>

*17.                        ** Long-term use of cover crops and no-till
shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil. By
Rodomir Schmidt et al. PLoS ONE 13 (2) e0192953 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/1npswmezu6zxkkr/Schmidt%20et%20al%20Cover%20crops%20and%20mirobial%20journal.pone.0192953.pdf?dl=0>



*18.                        * *When the going gets tough: Performance of
stress tolerant maize during the 2015/16 (El Niño) and 2016/17 (La Niña)
season in southern Africa. By Peter Setimela et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems
and Environment 268:79-89 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/7iqpm5znjhg157i/Setimela%20et%20al.%202018.When%20the%20going%20gets%20tough.pdf?dl=0>



*19.                        * *Data Descriptor: Smart subsidies for
catchment conservation in Malawi. By A. R. Bell et al. Sci. Data 5 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzemjr2hxtg5qlx/Smart_subsidies_for_catchment_conservation_in_Mala-1.pdf?dl=0>
.


<https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3snqu94muxo2gi/Somasundaram_et_al-2016-Land_Degradation__Development_online.pdf?dl=0>

*20.                        ** Impact of 47 years of no tillage and stubble
retention on soil aggregation and carbon distribution in a Vertisol.
By **Jayaraman
Somasundaram et al. Land Degradation and Development (2016).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3snqu94muxo2gi/Somasundaram_et_al-2016-Land_Degradation__Development_online.pdf?dl=0>



*21.                        * *Conservation Agriculture enhances resistance
of maize to climate stress in a Malawian medium-term trial. By Peter
Steward et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/km0j2nxmn1vgg20/Stewardetal_2018_AGEE%20%28002%29.pdf?dl=0>



*22.                        * *Differential impacts of Conservation
Agriculture technology options on household income in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Justice Tambo and Jonathan Mockshell. Ecological Economics15:195-105
(2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2dyikl7v1b9or2/Tambo%20and%20Mockshell%202018%20Defferential%20impacts%20of%20CA.pdf?dl=0>



*23.                        * *Sustainable Weed Management for Conservation
Agriculture: Options for Smallholder Farmers. By Brian Sims et al.
Agriculture 8 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx2iphju0fljwxu/Weed%20management%20Sims%20agriculture-08-00118%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0>



*24.                        * *Nature-based solutions for water. UN World
Water Development Report 2018. UNESCO, Paris.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/h44929t1okifd6n/WWAP_2018_NBS_for_water_raymond_ch6.pdf?dl=0>




*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



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).



Latest (2015/16) CA area information available at: *Global spread of
Conserv* *ation Agriculture. By A. Kassam et al. Internationa Journal of
Environmental Studies. Published Online (2018)*


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