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Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 6 Feb 2019 23:46:10 +0000
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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the seminar announcement at FAO involving the Africa
Conservation Tillage Network (ACT and the European Conservation Agriculture
Federation (ECAF) with the Webcast link included below. It is the link
through which the webcasting will be broadcasted on Friday 7th February
2019.

Thank you Josef Kienzle for sharing.

*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: Kienzle, Josef (AGPM) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:09 PM
Subject: FW: seminar announcement
To: Saidi Mkomwa <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>, Gottlieb Basch (ECAF) <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Gutierrez, Diana (OCCD) <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Saidi, Gottlieb and Amir,


Below the seminar announcement with the Webcast link included below. It is
the link through which the webcasting will be broadcasted on Friday.


Maybe you want to share this announcement with your networks.


Thanks a lot.


Josef Kienzle

FAO, Rome

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*Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture: Developing Networks and
Synergies between Africa and Europe*





The seminar will focus on the need to boost sustainable crop production in
Africa and how to support climate change adaptation and mitigation. The
discussions and presentations will focus on smallholder farming systems in
rural Africa and medium-scale commercial farmers in Europe. They will
highlight the importance of emerging partnerships and capacity building,
strengthening linkages with knowledge hubs and connections to service
industries, and the role that agricultural equipment and innovation can
play.



*Presenters: *



-          *Eng. Saidi Mkomwa, Executive Secretary, the African
Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)*



*ACT is a pan-African not-for-profit organization that focuses on
strengthening the adoption and scaling up of Conservation Agriculture (CA),
improving climate change resilience in Africa, enhancing capacity building
and partnerships relating to CA, and strengthening entrepreneurship and
business development for CA.*



-          *Prof. Gottlieb Basch, President, European Conservation
Agriculture Federation (ECAF)*
*ECAF is a non-profit making international association that aims to improve
farmers, agrarian technicians and society’s access to information on
techniques that conserve agrarian soil and its biodiversity, in the context
of sustainable agriculture, and to encourage research and development on CA
and the biodiversity of agrarian soil, and carry out activities to promote
CA. *





The event will be webcast at:
http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4939/icode/

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