*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification * * Alert No. 40 (16 June 2015) * *1. * *World Congress on Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest Systems (WCCLF2015), Brasilia, July 12th to 17th 2015. *More information at the WCCLF website http://www.wcclf2015.com.br/ *2. **The 5th World Sustainability Forum: Transitioning toward Sustainability. 7–9 September 2015, Basel, Switzerland. * More information at: http://www.sciforum.net/conference/wsf-5 Registration: at http://sciforum.net/conference/wsf-5/page/travel *3. **Comment on Pittelkow et al. article by Taxian Hu et al. Nature (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Comment on Pittelkows article by Yaxian Hu 27May2015.docx> *4. **Conservation Agriculture in an irrigated cotton-wheat system of the western Indo-Gangetic Plains: Crop and water productivity and economic profitability. By T. K. Das et al. Field Crops Research 158:24-33 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Das_Cotton-Wheat CA_FCR 2014.pdf> *5. **Effects of tillage and time of sowing on bread wheat, chickpea, barley and lentil grown in rotation in rainfed systems in Syria. By C. Piggin et al. Fiedl Crops Research 173: 57-67 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Piggin et al. %282015%29 Tillage-TOS effects on wheat-chickpea-barley-lentil 2007-12 Syria FCR 173 57-67.pdf> *6. **Understanding and enhancing soil biological health: The solution for reversing soil degradation. By R.M. Lehman et al. Sustainability 7:988-1027 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Soil Health & Sustainability Lehman et al 2015__SOM_sustainability-07-00988-1027.pdf> *7. **No-till and Conservation Agriculture in the United States: An example from David Brandt farm, Carroll, Ohio. By R. Islam and R. Reeder. Soil and Water Conservation Research 2 (1):97-104 (2014).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Islam and Reeder-1-s2.0-S2095633915300174-main.pdf> *8. **Farming for ecosystem services: An ecological approach to production agriculture. By G.P. Robertson et al. Bioscience Vol 65 (5): 404-415 (May 2014).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/BioScience-2014-Philip Robertson-404-15.pdf> *9. **A reality check on research in agriculture. By Howard Buffet (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/A Reality Check on Research in Agriculture.pdf> *www.harvestingthepotential.org* <http://www.harvestingthepotential.org> *10. * *Potential for nutrition-sensitive Conservation Agriculture in Zambia. Report of a study on the potential of Conservation Agriculture to improve nutrition. By Anne-Marie Mayer. Concern Worldwide (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Concern Worldwide,CA and Nutrition, Zambia, full report.pdf> *11. * *The potential of Conservation Agriculture to improve nutrition in Zambia – a brief. Concern Worldwide (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/Concern Worldwide,CA and Nutrition,Zambia, brief.pdf> *12. * *Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Where does it fit? Opinion from the field. By F. Baudron et al. CIMMYT Informa (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/FB-CT where does it worke_informa_1937.pdf> *13. * *Sustainable intensification revisited. By S. Cook et al. IIED Issue Paper. IIED, London (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/SPI-IIED.pdf> *14. * *Sustainable intensification opportunities under current and future cereal systems of north-west India. By P.C. Sharma et al. Technical Bulletin, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/CSISA Bulletin Final.pdf> *15. * *Proceedings of the Conference on Conservation Agriculture for Smallholders in Asia and Africa. (Eds. W.H. Vance, R.W. Bell and M.E. Haque). Mymensingh, Bangladesh. 7-14 December 2014.* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert 40/CASH_Conference_Mymensingh_Bangladesh_Jan_2015.pdf> *16. * *Up-dating Conservation Agriculture Data Base in AquaStat, FAO. * The CA land area data base is updated periodically based on the feedback received from our regular sources of information and is posted in AquaStat. 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