*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification * * Alert No. 42 (19 November 2015) * *1. **Soil carbon restoration: can biology do the job? By Jack Kitterage. Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter, Inc. (August 2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/2015_White_Paper_web-2.pdf> *2. **A set of eight articles by Howard Buffett. (1) You can listen to the academics, or you can listen to the farmers. (2) Africa’s no-till revolution. (3) No-till African style. (4) We are treating soil like dirt: It’s a fatal mistake. (5) One farmer’s story of Conservation Agriculture. (6) What does a $100 billion asset manager say farmers should invest in? Soil. (7) Losing the farm. (8) Assessing Africa’s real potential for agriculture (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Buffett-Oct%202015%20DesMoinesReg_Advt%201-8_Draft%2011_10.02.15.pdf> *3. **Carbon sequestration in soil. By Rattan Lal et al. Environmental Sustainability 15:79–86 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Lal%20Carbon%20sequestration.pdf> *4. **Soil carbon stocks in conservation agriculture systems of Southern Africa. By Stephanie Cheesman et al. Soil & Tillage Research 156: 99–109 (2016).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Cheesman.%202015.Soil%20carbon%20stocks%20in%20CA%20of%20southern%20Africa.pdf> *5. **Short-term conservation agriculture and biomass-C input impacts on* *soil C dynamics in a savanna ecosystem in Cambodia**. By **Lyda Hok et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 214:54–67 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Juca%20Cambodia.pdf> *6. **Minimum tillage unpuddled transplanting: An alternative crop establishment strategy for rice in conservation agriculture cropping systems. By Md. Enamul Haque et al. Field Crops Research 185:31–39 (2016).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Enamul-main.pdf> *7. **Overview of the worldwide spread of Conservation Agriculture. By A, Kassam et al. Facts Reports 8 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/factsreports-3966-vol-8-overview-of-the-worldwide-spread-of-conservation-agriculture.pdf> *8. **Nitrogen management for zero till wheat with surface retention ofrice residues in north-west India. By Yadvinder-Singh et al. Field Crops Research 183-191 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Field%20Crop%20Research_N%20management-Proof.pdf> *9. **Beyond conservation agriculture. By K. Giller et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 6:2-14 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Giller%20et%20al%20Beyond%20CA.pdf> *10. **Conservation tillage is not Conservation Agriculture. By D. Reicosky. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 70 (5):101A-108A (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/J.Soil%20Water%20Conservation-2015-Reicosky-103A-8A.pdf> *11. **Management influence on maize–wheat system* *performance, water productivity and soil biology. By H.S. Jat et al. Soil Use and Management. British Society of Soil Science (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Jat%20et%20al-%20Soil%20Use%20and%20Management.pdf> *12. * *Cover cropping and the “4 per thousand” proposal. By Rattan Lal. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 70 (6): 141 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Lal%20cover%20crop%20and%204%20per%20thousadn-DocDoc3%20Nov2015pdf.pdf> *13. * *Climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and economic* *profitability of conservation agriculture: Some examples fromcereal systems of Indo-Gangetic Plains. By* *Tek B Sapkota et al. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 14(8): 1524–1533 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Sapkota-Journal%20of%20Integrative%20Agriculture-%20CLimate%20Chage%20%282015%29.pdf> *14. * *Soil – A precious natural resource. **Published by* *National Research Programme* *“Sustainable Use of Soil as a Resource” (NRP 68), Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), and Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Soil%20A%20Precious%20Natural%20Resource%20Swiss%20Aug2015.pdf> *15. * *Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services* *across European land use systems**. By **Franciska T. de Vries et al. PNAS 110 (35): 14296-14301 (2013).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Soil%20food%20web%20properties%20explain%20ecosystem%20services%20across%20European%20land%20use%20systems.%20PNAS%202013.full-1.pdf> *16. * *Conservation agriculture and* *drought-tolerant germplasm: Reaping the* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Thierfelder%20et%20al.%202015.CA%20and%20drought-tolerant%20maize.pdf> *benefits of climate-smart agriculture technologies in central Mozambique. By Chritian Thierfelder et al. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-15 (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Thierfelder%20et%20al.%202015.CA%20and%20drought-tolerant%20maize.pdf> *17. * *Development and evaluation of the Turbo Happy Seeder for sowing wheat into heavy rice residues in NW India. By H.S. Sidhu et al. Field Crops Research (2015).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2042/Turbo%20Happy%20Seeder_FCR.pdf> *18. * *Up-dating Conservation Agriculture Database in AquaStat, FAO. * The CA land area database is updated periodically based on the feedback received from our regular sources of information. These include: official government sources, no-till associations, NGOs, national and international research institutes, and informed individuals. The information is posted in AquaStat. The latest figures (update 2013) can be seen at the FAO CA-Website at (http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/6c.html). *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca --------- To subscribe to the CA-CoP-L list, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] leaving the subject line blank and placing only the one-line message: ‘*SUBSCRIBE CA-CoP-L Name Surname*’ in the message part without any further text such as an address, etc. To unsubscribe from the CA-CoP-L list, send an e-mail message to [log in to unmask] leaving the subject line blank and placing only the one-line message: '*SIGNOFF CA-CoP-L*' in the message part without any further text such as a name, address, etc. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);