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.

 

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).

 

3.     Overview of the Worldwide Spread of Conservation Agriculture. By Amir Kassam et al. Field Actions Science Reports Vol 8. 2015.

 

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.

 

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

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