*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see the January-February 2019 News Alert on Conservation Agriculture (CA) from ACT which is a pan-African network that promotes the uptake and spread of CA across Africa. 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, Reduced 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: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 15:13 Subject: ACT January - February 2019 News Alert To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear ACT Members and Friends, Find attached herein, the January and February 2019 ACT Conservation Agriculture news alert. Your comments, views and articles are welcome. With warmest regards Saidi Mkomwa Executive Secretary *African* *Conservation** Tillage* *Network* /Conservation Agriculture for Improved Livelihoods and a Better Environment/ KALRO Kabete Compound, Waiyaki Way P.O. Box 10375-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Web: http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVXAQdFAAhPDQA Tel: 254 20 8076064 <tel:254%2020%208076064> ; <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRBQpFAAhPDQA> Read More <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRBQpFAAhPDQA> Facebook <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRAwBFAAhPDQA> Twitter <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRAwFFAAhPDQA> Youtube <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRAwZFAAhPDQA> -- This message was sent to [log in to unmask] by [log in to unmask] To forward this message, please do not use the forward button of your email application, because this message was made specifically for you only. Instead use the forward page <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRBQtFAAhPDQA> in our newsletter system. To change your details and to choose which lists to be subscribed to, visit your personal preferences page <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVXTwUISw0C> Or you can opt-out completely <http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVWTwUISw0C> from all future mailings. -- powered by phpList, www.phplist.com -- This message contains attachments that can be viewed with a webbrowser: January - February 2019 Alert Location: http://www.act-africa.org/lists/dl.php?id=52 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);