Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE  

for sustainable agriculture and land management

Alert No. 55 (5 July 2018)

1.     Plantas de Cobertura: Manual Tecnico. By Ademir Calegari, Projeto Solovivo. IAPAR, Brazil (2016).

 

2.     Potential for Conservation Agriculture in the Dry Marginal Zone of Central Syria: A Preliminary Assessment. By Baqir Lalani et al. Sustainability 10:1-19 (2018).

 

3.     The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and Conservation Agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa. By Marc Corbeels et al. (2018).

 

4.     Census Parcels Cropping System Classification from Multitemporal Remote Imagery: A Proposed Universal Methodology. By Luis García-Torres et al. PLoS ONE 10(2) (2014).

 

5.     Effect of tillage and crop (cereal versus legume) 1 on greenhouse gas emissions and Global Warming Potential in a non-irrigated Mediterranean field. By Guillermo Guardia et al. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2016).

 

6.     Driving factors of soil carbon accumulation in Oxisols in long-termno-till systems of South Brazil. By Ademir de Oliveira Ferreira et al. Science of the Total Environment 622–623 (2018) 735–742 (2018).

 

7.     Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction. By James Hansen et al. Agricultural Systems (2018).

 

8.     Agricultural Policies and Investment Priorities for Managing Natural Resources, Climate Change and Air Pollution; Policy brief. By Raj Paroda et al. TAAS, CIMMYT, ICAR, CCAFS, WB (2018).

 

 

9.       Phenotyping Conservation Agriculture Management Effects on Ground and Aerial Remote Sensing Assessments of Maize Hybrids Performancein Zimbabwe. By Adrian Gracia‐Romero et al.  Remote Sens. 10 (349): 1-21 (2018).

 

10.                         Changes in soil organic carbon during 22 years of pastures, cropping or integrated crop/livestock systems in the Brazilian Cerrado. By Selenobaldo A. C. de Sant-Anna et al. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst.  108:101–120 (2017).

 

11.                         Soil health – What should the doctor order? By M. Wood and A. M. Litterick. Soil Use and Management, 33, 339–345. (2017).

 

12.                         Should Soil Testing Services Measure Soil Biological Activity? By Alan J. Franzluebbers. Agric. Environ. Lett. 1 (2016).

 

13.                         Feeding the Nation and the World — Sustainably: The soil health roadmap to productive, sustainable farming in the 21st century and beyond. NRCS, USDA (2011).

 

14.                         On-farm soil health evaluations: Challenges and opportunities. By Douglas L. Karlen et al. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.72(2):26-31 (2017).

 

15.                         Complementary practices supporting conservation agriculture in southern Africa. A review. By Christian Thierfelder et al. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 38:16 (2018).

 

16.                         Zero-tillage as a pathway for sustainable wheat intensification in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: does it work in farmers’ fields? By Alwin Keil et al. Food Sec. 7:983–1001 (2015).

 

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

 

18.                         Does Zero Tillage Improve the Livelihoods of Smallholder Cropping Farmers? By Tamer El-Shater et al. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 67 (1): 154–172 (2016).

 

19.                         Minimal soil disturbance and increased residue retention increase soil carbon in rice-based cropping systems on the Eastern Gangetic Plain. By Md. Khairul Alam et al. Soil and Tillage Research 183: 28-41 (2018).

 

20.                         Enzymes and C pools as indicators of C build up in short-term conservation agriculture in a savanna ecosystem in Cambodia. By Lyda Hok et al. Soil & Tillage Research 177:125-133 (2018).

 

Amir Kassam

Moderator

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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 practices (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca)


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