*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebeloow the latest issue (January 2019) of WASWAC HOTNEWS. 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 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: waswac <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:21 AM Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear WASWAC members, Attached please find the Hot News for the issue 12 of 2018. With the arrival of Chines New Year, we would like to take opportunity to express our best wishes to all of you. (1) The deadline to submit an abstract to WASWAC World Conference IV is Feb. 15, 2019. (2) The first Young Researchers’ Conference on Erosion and Torrent Control was held in Belgrade. (3) The first Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Academic Conference was held in Beijing. Detailed information please find in this issue HOT NEWS. Any problems please feel free to get back to our secretariat. Happy Chinese New Year ! The pdf version is also available here http://www.waswac.org/waswac/rootfiles/2019/01/29/1549845885657488-1549845885688349.pdf WASWAC The Secretariat of WASWAC Room 402, IRTCES Building No. 20 Chegongzhuang Road West Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China Tel.: +86 10 6878 6579 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.waswac.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);