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).
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).
3.
Carbon sequestration in soil. By Rattan Lal
et al. Environmental Sustainability 15:79–86 (2015).
4.
Soil carbon stocks in conservation
agriculture systems of Southern Africa. By Stephanie Cheesman et al. Soil &
Tillage Research 156: 99–109 (2016).
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).
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).
7.
Overview of the worldwide spread of
Conservation Agriculture. By A, Kassam et al. Facts Reports 8 (2015).
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).
9.
Beyond conservation agriculture. By K. Giller et al. Frontiers in Plant
Science 6:2-14 (2015).
10.
Conservation tillage is not Conservation Agriculture. By D. Reicosky.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 70 (5):101A-108A (2015).
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).
12.
Cover cropping and the “4 per thousand”
proposal. By Rattan Lal. Journal of Soil
and Water Conservation: 70 (6): 141 (2015).
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).
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).
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).
16.
Conservation agriculture and drought-tolerant germplasm:
Reaping the
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).
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).
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
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