*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification * * Alert No. 43 (29 December 2015) * *1. **Multifunctional Agriculture. By Michele Pisante. In: World Food Production: facing growing needs and limited resources. pp. 229-252. Guiseppe Bertoni (ed.) Vita e Pensiero, Milano. 2015.* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Ch-14%20Pisante.pdf> *2. **Why do medium- and large-scale farmers succeed practicing CA and small-scale farmers often do not? – experiences from Paraguay. By Rolf Derpsch et al. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 2015* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Derpsch%20Paraguay.pdf>* (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2015.1095974 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2015.1095974>).* *3. **Overview of the Worldwide Spread of Conservation Agriculture. By Amir Kassam et al. Field Actions Science Reports Vol 8. 2015.* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/factsreports-3966-vol-8-overview-of-the-worldwide-spread-of-conservation-agriculture.pdf> *4. **The effects of tillage, mulching and termite control strategies on termite activity and maize yield under conservation agriculture in Mozambique. By Isaiah Nyagumbo et al. Crop Protection 78: 54-62. 2015.* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Nyagumbo%20et%20al%202015.%20termites.pdf> *5. **Development of Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems in Malawi: Lessons learned from 2005 to 2014. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Experimental Agriculture. 2015* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Thierfelder%20et%20al.%202015.%20CA%20in%20Malawi-%20lessons.pdf>* (doi:10.1017/S0014479715000265).* *6. **Conservation agriculture and drought-tolerant germplasm: Reaping the benefits of climate-smart agriculture technologies in central Mozambique. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 2015* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Thierfelder%20et%20al.%202015.CA%20and%20drought-tolerant%20maize.pdf>* (doi:10.1017/S1742170515000332).* *7. **Walkley-Black Recovery Factor to Reassess Soil Organic Matter: Indo-Gangetic Plains and Black Soil Region of India Case Studies. By T. Bhattacharyya et al. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 46(20):2628-2648. 2015* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Walkley%20Black%20recovery%20factor%20paper%20%281%29.pdf>* (doi: 10.1080/00103624.2015.1089265).* *8. **Status of the World’s Soil resources. FAO, Rome. 2015* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/Data/agp/Friedrich/Alert%2043/Staoil%20Resources.pdf> *.* *9. * *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);