CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable production intensification
Amir Kassam
Moderator
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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use - 1st circular
We are glad to inform you, that the Geographical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organising the:
International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use.
The conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on the 31.05.-02.06.2016, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Aims of the conference will be to share knowledge of conservation agriculture internationally also across different scientific fields.
The application of Conservation Agricultural Systems is spreading worldwide. New results in the field of scientific and practical applications are accumulating continuously and therefore it seems to be important to present and discuss about the new achievements. To support this intention the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is organizing the International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use.
Conservation Agriculture
is
practised on over 155 million hectares around the world,
covering more than
one tenth of the global annual cropland surface. The largest
and most rapid
expansion has been in North and South America, Australia/New
Zealand, and some
parts of Asia and Africa. Compared to this, the adoption and
extension of Conservation
Agriculture in Europe has not been so rapid, despite of the
considerable amount
of damage caused by land degradation, mainly because of
agricultural
mismanagement.
Land degradation affects large areas also on
our continent,
particularly in the semi-arid regions. The already
unsustainable rates of soil
erosion are supposed to increase significantly over the next
century due to
land cover and precipitation changes. Improving conservation
agricultural
techniques by scientific research and practice and the
dissemination of results
and experiences are therefore crucial and an important
challenge for
specialists engaged in sustainable land use around the world.
The aim of the conference is to promote this striving by inviting scientists to meet and discuss the results, problems and the possibilities of further development in this field.
Keynote speakers:
Márta Birkás, Szent István University, Hungary
José Alfonso Gómez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Gerard Govers, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
John Quinton, Lancaster University, UK
For details visit the event’s website: http://caslu2016.mtafki.hu/
Kind regards from the organisers:
Adrienn Tóth
Balázs Madarász
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Tóth Adrienn, PhD
tudományos fõmunkatárs
MTA Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont
Földrajztudományi Intézet
H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45.
+36-1-309-2600/1490
www.mtafki.hu
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