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for sustainable agriculture and land management


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Please see attached herewith a review paper entitled: A review of conservation agriculture research in South Africa, 2017, by Corrie M Swanepoel, Lourens H Swanepoel & Hendrik J Smith, published in the South African Journal of Plant and Soil.

Thank you Hendrik Smith 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 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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From: Hendrik Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:36 PM
Subject: A review of conservation agriculture research in South Africa, 2017.pdf
To: amirkassam786 <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Amir

You may share this article in your next CoP

Kind regards

Hendrik

 

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