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: 1–5 (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
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