*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow an announcement and the 1*st Call* for papers for the 29th Soil Science Society of East Africa Conference and Exhibition. Thank you Dr. Esilaba for sharing. *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: Anthony Esilaba <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 08:02 Subject: Re: Announcement and the 1*st Call* for papers for the 29th Soil Science Society of East Africa Conference and Exhibition. To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Cc: anthony O. esilaba <[log in to unmask]>, < [log in to unmask]>, Stephen Kimani <[log in to unmask]>, cyrus githunguri <[log in to unmask]>, Cyrus Githunguri < [log in to unmask]>, Fredah Maina <[log in to unmask]>, Fredah Maina <[log in to unmask]>, Fredah W. Maina <[log in to unmask]> Dear Amir Kassam, Please find attached the announcement and the 1*st Call* for papers for the 29th Soil Science Society of East Africa Conference and Exhibition. We would appreciate if you could assist in circulating this call. Please visit the KALRO website at www.kalro.org for the latest conference updates . Regards, Anthony. O. Esilaba Chair, Soil Science Society of East Africa email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);