CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

for sustainable production intensification


Alert No. 44 (4 March 2016)

1.     Proline content as a stress indicator to quantify conservation agriculture effect in wheat crop. By Brijesh Kumar et al. Res. on Crops 16 (3): 422-431 (2015) (doi:10.5958/2348-7542.2015.00058.3).

 

2.     Sustainable intensification opportunities under current and future cereal system in North-West India. By P.C. Sharma et al. ICAR Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Haryana, India (2015).

 

3.     Conservation agriculture in an irrigated cotton–wheat system of the western Indo-Gangetic Plains: Crop and water productivity and economic profitability. By T.K Das et al. Field Crops Research 158: 24-33 (2014).

 

4.     Integration of conservation agriculture with best management practices for improving system performance of the rice–wheat rotation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. By Ranjan Laik et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 195: 68-82 (2015).

 

5.     Fire-free fallow management by mechanized chopping of biomass for sustainable agriculture in Eastern Amazon: Effects of soil compactness, porosity, and water retention and availability.  By José Miguel Reichert et al. Land Degradation and Development (2015) (doi: 10.1002/ldr.2395).

 

6.     Are Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems productive and profitable options for smallholder farmers in different agro-ecoregions of Zimbabwe? By W. Mupangwa et al. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2016) (doi:10.1017/S1742170516000041).

 

7.     Evaluating manual conservation agriculture systems in southern Africa. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 222: 112–124 (2016).

 

8.     Mechanized land preparation in eastern Amazon in fire-free forest-based fallow systems as alternatives to slash-and-burn practices: Hydraulic and mechanical soil properties. By Jose Miguel Reichert et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2014) (doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.03.046).

 

9.     Fragmentation, fiber separation, decomposition, and nutrient release of secondary-forest biomass, mechanically chopped-and-mulched, and cassava production in the Amazon. By José Miguel Reichert et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 204: 8-16 (2015).

 

10.             Fire-free fallow management by mechanized chopping of biomass for sustainable agriculture in eastern Amazon: Effects on soil compactness, porosity and water retention and availability. By José Miguel Reichert et al. Land Degradation and Development (2015) (doi: 10.1002/ldr.2395).

 

11.             Agronomic improvements can make future cereal systems in South Asia far more productive and result in a lower environmental footprint. By Jagdish Kumar Ladha et al. Global Change Biology (2015) (doi: 10.1111/gcb.13143).

 

12.             Does conservation agriculture deliver climate change mitigation through soil carbon sequestration in tropical agro-ecosystems? By David S. Powlson et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 220: 164–174 (2016).

 

13.            Versatile Strip Seed Drill: A 2-Wheel Tractor-Based Option for Smallholders to Implement Conservation Agriculture in Asia and Africa. By Md. Enamul Haque et al. Environments 3:1-13 (2016) (doi:10.3390/environments3010001).

 

14.             Save and Grow in Practice: Maize, Rice and Wheat – A Guide to Sustainable Production.  FAO, Rome (2016).

 

15.              Conservation Agriculture in Irrigated Areas of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. By Aziz Nurbekov et al. ICARDA Working Paper 26 (2015).

 

16.             Fighting Microbes with Microbes Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops? By Amy Coombs. The Scientist January 2013.   

 

17.             Zero tillage – The voice of farmers. R.K.Malik et al. Directorate of Extension CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, India.

 

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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