Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land management
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).
Dear WASWAC members,
Attached please find the Hot News for the issue 08 of 2018.
(1) "Global Soil Erosion Research Forum" was held in Yangling during September 12 to 14 successfully.
(2) To celebrate the 60th anniversary of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), a forum on Modern Water Governance and Technological Innovation was held at Beijing on October 18, 2018. In the opening ceremony, Prof. Kuang Shangfu, the president of IWHR provided all participants with a detailed speech.
(3) On October 19, 2018, the International Forum on Flood Management was held in Beijing.
Detailed information please find in this issue HOT NEWS.
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