*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscriber, Please see attached a paper entitled: *Conservation agriculture enhances resistance of maize to climate stress in aMalawian medium-term trial* by Peter R. Steward, Christian Thierfelder, Andrew J. Dougill, Ivy Ligowe *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 locally adapted 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 (environmentally, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems (more at: *www.fao.org/ag/ca). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: THIERFELDER, Christian Lutz (CIMMYT-Zimbabwe) <[log in to unmask] > Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:29 AM Subject: RE: new article To: THIERFELDER, Christian Lutz (CIMMYT-Zimbabwe) <[log in to unmask]> Dear All, CA and Climate Change has been a hot topic in our research Agenda and having LT trials to proof how the systems respond under drought conditions has been a major benefit of our work – smart Investment in medium to LT trials will pay off over time. The current study is a collaboration with the University of Leeds. The attached paper published in Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment is entitled: *Conservation agriculture enhances resistance of maize to climate stress in a Malawian medium-term trial* by Peter R. Steward,⁎, Christian Thierfelder, Andrew J. Dougill, Ivy Ligowe. I hope you will find this useful in your future work… All the best, Chrstian *Dr. Christian Thierfelder* | Senior Cropping Systems Agronomist *International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) - Southern Africa Regional Office* P.O. Box MP 163, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe *email:* [log in to unmask] *skype:* chthierfelder *cel:* +263 772815230 website <http://www.cimmyt.org/en/> | *twitter <https://twitter.com/BusyBeeChris>* | linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-thierfelder-29193468/> | researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Thierfelder> |facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CIMMYT> | flickr <https://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/> | youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/CIMMYTint> *This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information from CIMMYT and/or its collaborators. * *Unless explicitly allowed in writing by an authorized representative, any use, reproduction, storage, * *retransmission or unauthorized disclosure of such information, whether in part or in whole, is hereby forbidden. * *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender and delete it immediately.* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);