*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification and land management * *Alert No. 51 (26 July 2017) * *1. **Conservation Agriculture: Making Climate Change Mititigation and Adaptability Real in Europe. By Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez et al. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) (2017).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Conservation_Agriculture_climate_change_report.pdf> *2. **Farm-level Economic Analysis - Is Conservation Agriculture Helping the Poor? By Baqir Lalani et al. Ecological Economics 141 (2017) 144–153 (2017)* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Baqir%20CBA-main.pdf> *.* *3. **Farm-level economics of innovative tillage technologies: the case of no-till in the Altai Krai in Russian Siberia. By Miroslava Bavorova et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res (DOI 10.1007/s11356-017-9268-y) (2017).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Bavorova%20et%20al_Profitability_Russia_ESPR_2017.pdf> *4. **How do selected crop rotations affect soil organic carbon in boreo‑temperate systems? A systematic review protocol. Magnus Land et al. Land et al. Environ Evid 6:9 (2017) (DOI 10.1186/s13750-017-0086-y).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/How_do_selected_crop_rotations_affect_so.pdf> *5. **Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta-analysis. By Marıa Jesus Briones and Olaf Schmidt. Glob Change Biol. 2017;1–24. (2017) (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13744).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Briones%20%26%20Schmidt%202017%20GCB%20Early%20View%20formatted.pdf> *6. **Development of cost effective small no-till seeder for two wheel tractor in Bangladesh. By Md Israil Hossain et al. Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 42(1): 27-34 (2017).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Israil%20Hussein31970-114797-1-PB.pdf> *7. **Effects of Tillage Practices and Land Use Management on Soil Aggregates and Soil Organic Carbon in the North Appalachian Region, USA. By Arun Nath and Rattan Lal. **Pedosphere **27**: 1**–**5 (2017).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/NATHAj%26%20Lal.pdf> *8. **Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: **Threats and potential remedies. By Paul Vlek et al. (eds). CIAT Publication No. 440. CIAT Nairobi, Kenya. 67 pp (2017).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/LAND_DEGRADATION_AND_THE_SDGs-THREATS_AND_POTENTIAL_REMEDIES-1.pdf> *9. **Does Conservation Agriculture Enhance Household Food Security? Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Nkhotakota in Malawi. By Charles Jumbe and Wanangwa Nymbose. Sustainable Agriculture Research 5 (1): 118-128 (2016)* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Jumbe%20and%20Nyambose-Does%20conservation%20agriculture%20enhance%20food%20security.pdf> *.* *10. **Reduced Tillage and No-Till in Organic Farming Systems, Germany—Status Quo, Potentials and Challenges. By Sabine Zikeli and Sabine Gruber. **Agriculture 7(35): 2-17 (2017) (doi:10.3390/agriculture7040035).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Organic%20RT%20and%20NT.pdf> *11. **Conservation agriculture in Southern Africa: Advances in knowledge. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems: 30(4); 328–348 (2014) (doi:10.1017/S1742170513000550).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/conservation_agriculture_in_southern_africa_advances_in_knowledge.pdf> *12. **International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use: Book of Abstracts. By **Madarász, B. and Tóth A (eds). Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (2016).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/CASLU_abstract_book_0623.pdf> *13. **Economics of Land Degradation* *and Improvement – A Global Assessment* *for Sustainable Development. By Ephraim Nkonya et al (Eds). Springer Open (2016) (eBook)** (**DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19168-3).* <ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/friedrich/Alert%2051/Economics%20of%20land%20degradation.pdf> *14. **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. 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