*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Pleae see herebelow a link shared by Professor David Montgomery regarding an article in the Scientific American on 16 July 2018 entitled: *To Feed the World Sustainably, Repair the Soil* Thank you David for sharing. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca *Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil much cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (socio-economically and environmentally adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural production management practices *(more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:49 PM Subject: New post on soil restoration To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>, "Lal, Rattan" <[log in to unmask]>, Timothy LaSalle <[log in to unmask]> Thought you all might be interested in reading or sharing with others this new Scientific American post. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/to-feed-the- world-sustainably-repair-the-soil/ Best, Dave David R. Montgomery Professor of Geomorphology Department of Earth & Space Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-1310 Dig2Grow: Twitter <https://twitter.com/@dig2grow> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/thehiddenhalfofnature> | Website <http://www.dig2grow.com/> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);