*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see attached the ACT Newsletter for October on Conservation
Agriculture.

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).

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:59
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Dear ACT Members and Friends,

Find attached herein, the October 2019 ACT Conservation Agriculture news
alert. Your comments, views and articles are welcome.

<http://www.act-africa.org/lists/lt.php?id=ZkVRBApFAA5PDQA>

 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=ZkVXAQdFAA5PDQA
 Tel: 254 20 8076064 <tel:254%2020%208076064>

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