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. 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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