*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. The latest figures (update 2013/14) can be seen at the FAO
CA-Website at (http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/6c.html).



*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

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