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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