*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow for details of the next course on *Regenerating the Soil Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience* organized by Didi Pershouse of the Land and Leadership Initiative. Thank you Didi for sharing. *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 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). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:56 PM Subject: If possible, can you share this with list? To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Dear Amir, Here is the next course with the Land and Leadership Initiative coming up, starting on Monday, if it's possible to share with your networks. We have some scholarships available as well. *Regenerating the Soil Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience.* https://lali.teachable.com/p/soil-sponge-jan-feb-2019 Thank you! Didi Pershouse *Didi Pershouse* Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator www.didipershouse.com www.rehydratecalifornia.org http://soilcarboncoalition.org/learn (603) 252-1930 Download my facilitator's manual <http://soilcarboncoalition.org/learn> Learn online with The Land & Leadership Initiative <https://lali.teachable.com/> [image: The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities] <https://www.amazon.com/Ecology-Care-Agriculture-Microbial-Communities/dp/069261303X> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);