Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

for sustainable agriculture and land management


Dear Subscribers,

Please see attached the October CA News Alert from ACT.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

e-mail: [log in to unmask]      
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 much 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. Conservation Tillage and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).

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Dear ACT Members and Friends,

Find attached herein, the October 2018 ACT Conservation Agriculture news
alert. Your comments, views and articles are welcome.

 With warmest regards

 Saidi Mkomwa

 Executive Secretary

 *African* *Conservation** Tillage* *Network*

 /Conservation Agriculture for Improved Livelihoods and a Better
Environment/

 KALRO Kabete Compound, Waiyaki Way

 P.O. Box 10375-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

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 Web: http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVXAQdFAQBPDQA

 Tel: 254 20 8076064 <tel:254%2020%208076064>


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