CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable production
intensification
Alert No. 43 (29 December 2015)
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 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2015.1095974).
5. Development of Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems in Malawi: Lessons learned from 2005 to 2014. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Experimental Agriculture. 2015 (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 (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 (doi: 10.1080/00103624.2015.1089265).
8. Status of the World’s Soil resources. FAO, Rome. 2015.
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
URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
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