*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow the latest HOT NEWS (4th in 2018) from WASWAC. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* e-mail: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca *Conservation Agriculture is based on the practical application of three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and no-till weeding); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil much cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and perennials including legumes, along with other complementary good agricultural production management practices)* (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: waswac <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:40 AM Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: [log in to unmask] Dear WASWAC members, Attached please find the Hot News for the issue 04 of 2018. (1) It is time to prepare your travel for attending the upcomign forum in August. Any further problems on your preparation please feel free to contact with us. (2) Invitation by European Society of Soil Conservation (ESSC) and Joint Research Centre (JRC), Professor Li Rui, the President of WASWAC, visited Italy in this June. (3) IWHR released its annual report 2017, details highlights please have a look the attached Hot News. This issue HOT NEWS is also availalbe in our official website here : http://www.waswac.org/waswac/rootfiles/2018/07/10/1528341989585123- 1528341989587261.pdf All the best, The Secretariat of WASWAC WASWAC The Secretariat of WASWAC Room 402, IRTCES Building No. 20 Chegongzhuang Road West Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China Tel.: +86 10 6878 6579 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.waswac.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);