*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 *

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