*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see attached the latest WASWAC HOT NEWS. Apologies for any cross-posting. *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: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 11:51 Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear WASWAC members, Attached please find the Hot News for the issue 05 of 2019. (1) Some information on WASWAC World Conference IV have been updated, mainly including website change, acceptance or confimation for submitted abstract/paper, and extended deadlines. (2) WASWAC presidents visited China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research and Institute of Water Resources for Pastoral Area. (3) International Soil and Water Conservation Research (ISWCR), the official journal of WASWAC, has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). (4) The Symposium on the development dtrategy of ISWCR was held in Beijing. (5) A detailed guide for authors who are willing to submit papers to ISWCR has been provided. 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/2019/07/17/1564721497387809-1564721497439142.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);