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

*for sustainable production intensification

*

*Alert No. 27 (19 January 2013)

***

*1.      **T**he next Australian Controlled Traffic Farming Association
(ACTFA) conference will be in Toowoomba, Queensland on 25-27 February
2013.  ***



To express your interest and to be kept informed please click
<https://eir.eventsinteractive.com/ei/getdemo.ei?id=9810008000135&s=_EWS114AHC>
here<https://eir.eventsinteractive.com/ei/getdemo.ei?id=9810008000135&s=_EWS114AHC>
*  *and complete the brief Expression of Interest form.

*Contact*: Sally Brown (Email
sally.brown@sallybcc<[log in to unmask]>
.com.au <[log in to unmask]>)

On behalf of the ACTFA 2013 Organising Committee

* *www.conferenceconnections.com.au
* ***

*2.      **Frontiers in Conservation Agriculture in South Asia and Beyond.
International Workshop, **March 26-27, 2013, Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu,
Nepal
*
Sponsored by The University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), Local Initiatives for
Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), and the Institute of
Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS). Details available at:

http://libird.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=440&Itemid=2

Deadline for paper submission - 31 January, 2013
Send your paper to [log in to unmask]


Please see the attached
<http://libird.org/media/Conservation%20Agriculture%20Conference%20Announcement.pdf>call
for papers for more information about the
proposal requirements, programme, registration, etc. Feel free to contact
[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> if you have any further
questions or
need more information.

* *

*3.      **Conference on Conservation Agriculture for Smallholders in Asia
and Africa,*<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP-L-26-12-11/CA%20Bangladesh%20Meet.pdf>
* Bangladesh, 8-13 December 2013*



Themes for the conference are – i) Machinery: Design and development of
CA-based crop establishment and herbicide spraying machinery, implements,
tools for smallholders,; ii) Weed management: Suitable weed management
options (chemical, mechanical, crop rotation and biological); iii) Soil,
water and agronomy; iv) Commercialization: adoption and continuous
improvement of CA-based technologies; and v) Policy and institutional
framework for the adoption of CA.



For further information and expression of interests: Richard Bell (
[log in to unmask]) or Enamul Haque ([log in to unmask])



*4.      **6th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture to be held June
22-26, 2014, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada***

* *

The 6th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture will be held June 22-26,
2014, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. See the
flyer<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP-L-26-12-11/6th%20World%20Congress%20of%20Conservation%20Agriculture%20(2).pdf>and
learn more at
www.ctic.org/WCCA

Direct your inquiries to:

Karen A. Scanlon

Conservation Technology Information Center

3495 Kent Avenue, Suite J100

West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA

Tel: 765-494-2238

Fax: 765-463-4106

Email: [log in to unmask]

* *

*5.      **Maize-based conservation agriculture systems in Malawi:
Long-term trends in
productivity*<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP%20Alert%2027/CA%20in%20Malawi.FCR.Thierfelder%20et%20al.%202012.pdf>
*.* By Christian Thierfelder, John L. Chisui, Mphatso Gama, Stephanie
Cheesman, Zwide D. Jere, W. Trent Bunderson, Neal S. Eash, Leonard
Rusinamhodzi. Field Crops Research 142 (2013) 47–57.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2012.11.010**

* *

*6.      **Development of the Conservation Agriculture Equipment Industry
in Sub-Saharan Africa.* By B. G. Sims, C. Thierfelder, J. Kienzle, T.
Friedrich, A. Kassam. American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers (ASABE), Applied Engineering in Agriculture Vol. 28(6): 813-823
(2012)**



The paper was presented at the 5th World CA Congress in Brisbane, and that
version (identical text) can be downloaded from
here<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP%20Alert%2027/VWCCAAustralia-CAinSSA-ASABE.pdf>
:



ASABE members can get the Applied Engineering in Agriculture version from
ASABE.



http://elibrary.asabe.org/abstract.asp?aid=42472&redir=[volume=28&issue=6&conf=aeaj&orgconf=aeaj2012]&redirType=toc_journals.asp&dabs=Y



*7.      **No-Till Farming is a Growing
Practice*<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP%20Alert%2027/Horowitz-No-till%20in%20USA.pdf>
*. *By John Horowitz, Robert Ebel and Kohei Ueda.  A Report from the
Economic Research Service. USDA Economic Information Bulletin Number 70.
November 2010.

* 70*

*8.      **2012 Newsletter from Rattan Lal at the Carbon Management and
Sequestration Center(C-MASC) at Ohio State University. *
http://senr.osu.edu/cmasc/images/Winter_2012_newsletter_web.pdf**

* *

*9.      **Time to pack away those
ploughs*<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP%20Alert%2027/DRR-Novembernewsletter.pdf.pub.pdf>
*. *In: Newsletter for Disaster Risk Reduction, Agriculture and Food
Security Volume 2. Issue 2. November 2012.



*10.  **Science and Society: Conservation Agriculture.** *By* *Duane
Jeffery, Correspondent, Daily Herald. October 24, 2012.

http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/science-and-society-conservation-agriculture/article_fa506e15-3d71-5609-8953-11fd54746818.html



*11.  **Ten Truths About Conservation Agriculture and Smallholder Farmers. *By
Howard G. Buffet. Sept. 6, 2012 issue of the journal Nature.

http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Howard-G-Buffett-Nature-September-6-2012.pdf



*12.  **Two Wheel Tractor Newsletter January
2013*<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP%20Alert%2027/TWO%20WHEEL%20TRACTOR%20NEWSLETTER%20%20JANUARY%202013.pdf>
*.* Produced by R. Jeff Esdaile, Agricultural. Consultant, Tamworth, New
South Wales, Australia ([log in to unmask]).



*13.  **Up-dated Conservation Agriculture Data Base in AquaStat, FAO  *

 The CA land area data base has been updated based on the feedback received
from our regular sources of information and has been posted in AquaStat.
The latest figures can be seen at the FAO CA-Website at (
http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/6c.html).

However, updating of the data base is an ongoing process, and anyone who
would like to provide information on the land area under CA systems at the
national level is most welcome to do anytime. Ideally, we would appreciate
receiving the CA area information at the sub-national level, together with
any relevant historical information on adoption, cropping pattern, farm
size, agro-ecology, constraints, etc.


For the recording of area under CA, please adhere to the quantification of
the CA definition on the FAO-CA website: http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/6c.html


<http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/6c.html>

*1. Minimum Soil Disturbance: Minimum soil disturbance refers **to low
disturbance no-tillage and direct seeding. The disturbed area must be less
than 15 cm wide or less than 25% of the cropped area (whichever is lower).
There should be no periodic tillage that disturbs a greater area than the
aforementioned limits. Strip tillage is allowed if the disturbed area is
less than the set limits.*

*
2. Organic soil cover: Three categories are distinguished: 30-60%, >60-90%
and >90% ground cover, measured immediately after the direct seeding
operation. Area with less than 30% cover is not considered as CA. *

*
3. Crop rotation/association: Rotations/associations should involve at
least 3 different crops. However, repetitive wheat or maize cropping is not
an exclusion factor for the purpose of this data collection, but
rotation/association is recorded where practiced.*

*
*

*We would further like* to stress that the database counts actual land area
under annual crops with CA (permanent no-till). Area under perennial crops
will be recorded separately. No-till area by crop will not be recorded to
avoid double recording of the same land area.* ***

*
*

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

* *

Plant Production and Protection Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39-06-5705-6375

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca

*Save and Grow*

*Sustainable Crop Production Intensification***

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