*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management *
*Alert No. 60 (10 October 2019) *
*1. **Report on Policies and Action Plan for a Secure and Sustainable
Agriculture. Submitted to the Principal Scientific Adviser to the
Government of India by a Committee Chaired by Dr. Raj Paroda. 30 August
2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/fg0si9q829hfg7b/Report%20of%20Policies%20and%20Action_4-9-2019Paroda%20.pdf?dl=0>
*2. **Soil Carbon Loss Proportional to Tillage Intensity. By Dan
Crummett. No-Till Farmer October 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3avmv2wu5e6c9b/NNTC%202019%20Carbon%20Loss%20proportional%20to%20tillage%20intensity%20Dan%20Crummett%20article%20NTF%20PDF.pdf?dl=0>
*3. **An Opportunity for Regenerative Rice Production: Combining Plastic
Film Cover and Plant Biomass Mulch with No-Till Soil Management to Build
Soil Carbon, Curb Nitrogen Pollution, and Maintain High-Stable Yield. By
Shi Hua Lv et al. Agronomy 2019, 9, 600; doi:10.3390/agronomy9100600*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/pe36p2cda7hkhrq/Hua%20Padilla%20Uphoff%20Regeneration%20of%20rice%20production%20.pdf?dl=0>
*4. **Misunderstanding conservation agriculture: Challenges in
promoting, monitoring and evaluating sustainable farming. By K.M. Findlater
et al. Environmental Science and Policy 100: 47-54. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqghlgpq8f7udjq/Findlater%20et%20al.%202019%20-%20Misunderstanding%20conservation%20agriculture%20-%20Challenges%20in%20promoting%2C%20monitoring%20and%20evaluating%20sustainable%20farming.pdf?dl=0>
*5. **Earthworms are essential for soil quality, reducing crop pathogens
and ensuring yield. By E. Plaas et al. "Science for Environment Policy":
European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service, edited by SCU, The
University of the West of England, Bristol. Issue 529. 8 August 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5wkrw2rbkfk70e/Plaas%20earthworms_soil_quality_pathogen_reduction_529na2_en.pdf?dl=0>
*6. **Climate Change and Land. An IPCC Special Report on climate change,
desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food
security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Summary for
Policymakers. 7 August 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6nf75z9occ6xvz/4.-SPM_Approved_Microsite_FINAL.pdf?dl=0>
*7. **Fields on fire: Alternatives to crop residue burning in India. By
Shyamsunder et al. Science Vol 365 Issue 365. 9 August 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mxd90fq0zypcla/Shyamsundar%20Science%20Alternative%20to%20burning.pdf?dl=0>
*8. **Microbial spatial footprint as a driver of soil carbon
stabilization. By*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/768ilp3i3wqnqig/Kravchenko%20Microbial%20driver%20of%20soil%20C%20seq.pdf?dl=0>
*A.N. Kravchenko et al. Nature Communications 10:3121. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/768ilp3i3wqnqig/Kravchenko%20Microbial%20driver%20of%20soil%20C%20seq.pdf?dl=0>
*9. **Preserving the nutritional quality of crop plants under a changing
climate: importance and strategies. By José C. Soare et al. Plant Soil.
2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ooro9t61waqety7/Soares2019_Article_PreservingTheNutritionalQualit.pdf?dl=0>
*10. **Assessing the long-term impact of Conservation Agriculture on
wheat-based systems in Tunisia using APSIM simulation under a climate
change context. By Haithem Bahri et al. Scienece of the Total Environment
692: 1223-1233. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/791b65jheil6eeu/Assessing%20the%20long-term%20impact%20of%20conservation%20agriculture%20on.pdf?dl=0>
*11. **Conservation Agriculture Increases Profits in an Andean Region of
South America. By J. A. Delgado et al. Agrosyst. Geosci. Environ. 2:180050.
doi:10.2134/age2018.10.0050 (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/czhlx6wzkoulx9g/Conservation_Agriculture_Increases_Profits_in_an_Andean%20Region%20of%20South%20America%20DelGado%20et%20al%20May2019%20pdf.pdf?dl=0>
*12. **Maize productivity and profitability in Conservation Agriculture
systems across agro-ecological regions of Zimbabwe. A review of knowledge
and practice. By Paramu Mafongoya et al.Agriculture, Ecosystems and
Environment 220: 211-225. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/17vb6n3razyw1rw/Mapafungo%20et%20al%20maize%20productivity%20in%20CA%20.pdf?dl=0>
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*Global CA-CoP*
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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 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:
*http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture*
<http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture>).
Latest (2015/16) CA area information available from: *Global spread of
Conservation Agriculture. By A. Kassam et al. International Journal of
Environmental Studies. Published Online (2018).
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfpkexyerbcs9n5/Global%20spread%20of%20C%20paper%20Corrected%20GENV_A_1494927_O.pdf?dl=0>*
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