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).

 

2.   Farm-level Economic Analysis - Is Conservation Agriculture Helping the Poor? By Baqir Lalani et al. Ecological Economics 141 (2017) 144–153 (2017).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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: 15 (2017).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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).

 

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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