*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). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:59 Subject: ACT October 2019 Alert To: <[log in to unmask]> 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> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);