*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see attached a response to a paper by Ranganathan, J., Waite, R.,
Searchinger, T and Zionts, J. (2020). Regenerative Agriculture: Good for
Soil Health, but Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change.
https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/05/regenerative-agriculture-climate-change.
The response is entitled: 'Climate change mitigation potential of
regenerative agriculture is significant' by Keith Paustian, Claire Chenu,
Rich Conant, Francesca Cotrufo, Rattan Lal, Pete Smith, Jean-Francois
Soussana.
Regenerative Agriculture is Conservation Agriculture under a different name.
Thank you Maggie Willis (from Carbon Management and Sequestration Center,
The Ohio State University) for sharing.
Apologies for any cross-posting.
*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. 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. *
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From: Willis, Maggie via CMASC_Newsletter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 14:00
Subject: OSU C-MASC Newsletter Response to WRI: "Climate Mitigation
Potential of Regenerative Agriculture is Significant"
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Dear Colleagues,
Attached is a recent article on the importance of regenerative agriculture
to carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, which would be of
interest to you.
Best wishes,
Maggie
*Thank you for your patience in these unusual times. We wish you and your
loved ones the best of health.*
*Maggie Willis*
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Program Coordinator
*Carbon Management and Sequestration Center*
The Ohio State University
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