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, Reduced Tillage and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).
9th ESSC International Congress (Tirana, Albania, 26-28 September 2019)
The European Society for Soil Conservation & the Agricultural University of Tirana are delighted to invite you at the 9th ESSC International Congress.
In this 9th edition of the congress, the focus will be on “Soil's Contribution to People: from Food to Life Supporting Services’”.
Second Circular, Call for papers, info on Grants for young Researchers and more info are available at: www.9ESSC.UBT.EDU.AL
See you in Tirana!
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Carmelo Dazzi President of ESSC |
Pandi Zdruli Honorary Chairman of the Organizing Committee |
Fatbardh Sallaku Chairman of the Organizing Committee |
Edoardo A.C. Costantini Research Director Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria CREA-AA Centro di ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente via Lanciola 12/A Firenze 50125 Italy tel. 0039-055-24922 51 - 76 http://scholar.google.pt/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=it&user=CJ_5xboAAAAJ&view_op=list_works http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2762-8274 http://soilmaps.entecra.it/
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