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Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Toby Hodgkin regarding
the document: Assessing Agrobiodiversity: A Compendium of Methods.

Thank you Toby for sharing.

*Amir Kassam *

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*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and 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 mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, 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, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
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Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Assessing Agrobiodiversity: A Compendium of Methods
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Dear friends and colleagues

Assessing Agrobiodiversity: A Compendium of Methods is now available at
http://agrobiodiversityplatform.org/compendium/

Drawing on experiences from projects around the world, this Compendium has
been prepared by the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR) to
support the documentation, co-creation and sharing of knowledge about
agrobiodiversity and its management.

The Compendium provides guidelines for the collection and analysis of
information about the diversity of crops, livestock, pollinators and
harvested wild plants. The methods described have all been used with
communities around the world in landscapes with diverse environmental and
cultural features. These methods can be adapted to specific research
contexts and combined with many methods not covered in the Compendium.

This is the first version of the Compendium. PAR plans to add further
sections to future versions, e.g. on assessing soil biodiversity. Your
comments, suggestions for ways of improving the Compendium, corrections
would be most welcome and should be sent to
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Assessing Agrobiodiversity: A Compendium of Methods has been developed with the
support of The Christensen Fund, and in partnership with Bioversity
International, Rome; Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), Iran;
Instituto de Investigaciones  en Agricultura Tropical (INIFAT), Cuba; Local
Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Nepal;
North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society (NESFAS), India; Pgakenyaw
Association for Sustainable Development (PASD), Thailand; Southern Alliance
for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE), Zimbabwe; Faculty of Tropical
AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic;
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry, UK.

With our best wishes

Toby

Toby Hodgkin
Coordinator, Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research
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