*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see attached the latest issue of the WASWAC HOT NEWS for May 2019. Apologies any cross-postings. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* *Global CA-CoP* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture *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/or 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: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: waswac <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 at 12:58 Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear WASWAC members, Attached please find the Hot News for the issue 03 of 2019. (1) The deadline to submit an abstract for WASWAC World Conference IV is May 15, 2019, only 5 days left, hurry up! (2) WASWAC awards (2019) nomination are open, please make the nomination before June 30, 2019. (3) IWHR international postgraduate application is open, the deadline is June 30, 2019. (4) World Atlas of Desertification is available for free, you can download the online version. Detailed information please find in this issue HOT NEWS. Any problems please feel free to get back to our secretariat. All the best, The pdf version is also available here http://www.waswac.org/waswac/rootfiles/2019/05/10/1558604090170330-1558604090197682.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);