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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Didi Pershouse
regarding places still left in online course starting this Monday.

*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 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 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).

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From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:52 PM
Subject: Please share: A few spots left in online course starting this
Monday, January 14th
To: Amir <[log in to unmask]>


Regenerating the soil sponge for resilience to flooding, drought and
wildfire.


*
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=62b9c6e34e&e=7906f4d8e3>
Didi Pershouse*

*Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator*

*Founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative*
Author of *The Ecology of Care* and
*Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function*
Dear friends,

I have a few spots left in the upcoming 5-week live online discussion
course that starts this Monday, January 14th: *Regenerating the Soil Carbon
Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=bfeafdf325&e=7906f4d8e3>.
*We
have a great group forming from around the world, and I would love for you
to be part of it.

So far we have people joining us for this class from Hong Kong, Tunisia,
Australia, Mexico, and many parts of the North America. They
include ranchers, teachers, farmers, agronomists, health care workers,
people who work for the United Nations, and others who just want to learn
how to talk to people about soil health. I know (from the last few classes
I've taught) that when groups like this get together, we have deep
discussions, and friendships form quickly.

*Why would YOU want to take a class on the SOIL SPONGE? *
As my co-leaders at the new Regenerate Earth project like to say: "This is
the largest *underground* revolution ever."

Everyone I know who has gotten involved in the regenerative agriculture and
soil health movement has a sense of joy and hope and adventure that fuels
them.  This is because we have seen that with some very basic changes in
land management, it is possible *to provide all communities with clean
water, abundant food, and protection* from wildfires, drought, and
floods--by putting disordered atmospheric carbon back to work doing what it
is supposed to do: creating the order we know and love on Earth: beautiful,
functional landscapes, a predictable climate, and biodiversity in all
kingdoms of life.

We can do this without needing to wait for policy makers or leaders to
agree. We can do this in our own communities by following simple steps that
draw on the intelligence of natural systems,
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=105f5ad4e0&e=7906f4d8e3>No
matter where you live, this course offers an entirely new way of seeing and
working with the land around you: whether it is your urban backyard, a
small farm, or a large ranch.

Most importantly, this course provides a tremendous opportunity to *build
working relationships with people around the world who share your goals of
land regeneration. *

Spots are limited,, and these courses have filled up quickly in the past,
so I encourage you to *secure your spot now*
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=39a23f95b2&e=7906f4d8e3>
.

*This may be one of the last live introductory courses I teach for a while*,
as we *almost* have enough people to move into the next phase: strategic
innovation groups, and more advanced courses taught by soil health leaders
from around the globe. To join either of those, you will need to have taken
this course (or one of my previous introductory courses.)
Join the class.
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=1daf17a907&e=7906f4d8e3>
*Five-Week Course Details:* Participants will gather on Zoom Video
Conferencing (by computer or phone) from 12:00 - 2:00 PM EST (New York,
USA) on the following Mondays:

   - January 14
   - January 21
   - January 28
   - February 4
   - February 11

Classes will be recorded and made available to course participants if you
need to miss a class. There will be recommended reading, videos, and
journal-writing exercises between classes.
(If these dates or times don't work for you, please complete *this online
form
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=97f51b25b4&e=7906f4d8e3>
*so
we can let you know if we offer it again.)

*The course costs $300 (or three monthly payments of $100).  *

*Scholarships: A few spots in every course are reserved for participants
who need to pay less. **Contact us if this is you. We are particularly
interested in saving spots for farmers and current and emerging leaders
from the Global South.*

Please respond to this email with any questions about this course, or if
you would like to participate but cannot afford the full price.

*WHAT YOU WILL LEARN*
If you join us, you will learn a step-by-step blueprint for improving soil
health, public health, and resilience to extreme weather events, while
helping to cool the climate. This is the strategy I was invited to
present on World Soil Day at the United Nations last year, and the one I'm
outlining as a lead author of the "Future Directions" chapter for the
upcoming UN-FAO technical manual on soil carbon management.

My teaching style is to find and convey "*the simplicity beyond
complexity."* I want people who study with me to have a clear scientific
understanding of soil biology's role in the carbon, water, and nutrient
cycles--framed in ways that are easy to remember, and easy to pass along. *I
do this through hands-on demonstrations, photographs, videos, interesting
discussions, and activities* *that you can use to teach others*. In
particular, I will show how we can create conditions so that nature's
biological workforce--plants, animals, fungi, and other microbes--can
rebuild the natural "soil sponge" infrastructure that all life on land
depends on for food, water, and safety.

*WHY AM I DOING THIS?*
It has only been a few short months since I launched the *Land and
Leadership Initiative*
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=38254cc889&e=7906f4d8e3>,
and I couldn't be happier with how its developing. My aim has been to bring
together a group that can effectively change the direction the world is
going, over the next three years--by helping people understand that soil is
the basic infrastructure that makes all life on land possible, and that we
can address many of our major challenges through regeneration of healthy
soil.

Thanks to the last four courses, *we now have a growing international
community of deeply motivated people from all walks of life *who are
beginning to collaborate in their work towards land-based strategies for
community and climate resilience.

This is an emergent, grass-roots strategy--offering some basic principles
and then trusting the collaborations that come out of our work together,
(rather than trying to control or manage them.) This is what is needed for
true change. By working together, I know we can continue to build
communities of people around the world who will lead  and inspire soil
health initiatives in their own neighborhoods and regions, in their own
ways, by demonstrating that *simple changes in land management can
literally change everything around us.*

Will you join us?

*Didi*
*My upcoming in-person events:*
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*January 19, 2019 *in Exeter, California: Sequoia Riverlands Trust
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=21d70a0630&e=7906f4d8e3>
Soil Carbon Sponge Workshop

*February 20-24, 2019* in Paris, France *International Meeting for a Living
Agriculture
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=4c2b51b600&e=7906f4d8e3>.*

*March 28-31, 2019* in Montreal, Canada:  *Living Soils Symposium
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=700fcbd29e&e=7906f4d8e3>*
.

*June 18-20, 2019* in Poitiers, France (ENCORE!!) :  Food Security and
Climate Change: 4p1000 new tangible initiative for the soil"
Click here to learn more about the course.
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