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).
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
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