Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
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 systems and rice-based systems (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).
To all,
Subject: Information on videos from a soil conference
I had the good fortune of attending a very unique soil conference entitled “Living Soil: A Universe Underfoot” held at Gustavus Adolphus College, a liberal arts school located in St. Peter, Minnesota, USA on 2-3 October, 2018. There were 7 excellent, world-renowned speakers on various aspects of soil science. Their speeches and PowerPoint presentations were recorded for video presentation and serve as excellent learning/teaching tools for the most recent information on our living soil systems.
The speakers and their title of the presentation follows:
Dr. David Montgomery. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
Dr. Claire Chenu. Organic Matter: A Soil-ution for Global Challenges
Dr. Rattan Lal. Soil Carbon Sequestration for Advancing Global Food Security and Enhancing Resilience Against Climate Change
Dr. Frank Uekotter. Knowledge Is Power, and So Is Ignorance
Ray Archuleta. Healing the Land: One Heart, One Mind at a Time
Dr. Jack Gilbert. The Earth Microbiomes Project
Dr. Suzanne Simard. The Boundless Pathways of the Otherworld
General Information on the overall conference can be obtained at the following link:
https://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2018/
This link takes you to a brief description of the overall conference and the list of speakers and a little about their credentials. Clicking on the speaker’s name takes you to the YouTube website with the statement “You can watch Ray Archuleta's lecture online “
Clicking the word “online” will take you directly to the YouTube video. The times are listed to help you plan accordingly. Most of the presentations ran between 45 and 50 minutes.
This process can be repeated for each of the 7 speakers
Don Reicosky
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