Global CA-CoP
CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture
and land management
Alert No. 61 (31 January 2020)
1.
Soil microbial community
responses to climate extremes:
rsistence, resilience, and transition to alternative states. By R.D.Bardgett
and T. Caruso. Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society B. 375. 20190112. 2020.
2.
Conservation Agriculture
in trouble? Estimating the economic impact of an eventual glyphosate
prohibition in Spain. By G.Pardo and Y.Martinez. Planta Daninha 37:e019197994.
2019.
3.
Analysing challenges
facing smallholder farmers and Conservation Agriculture in South Africa: A system
dynamics approach. By Wolfgang von Loeper et al. SAJEMS Asset research NS 19
(2016) No 5:747-77 (2016).
4. Producing food while protecting the environment:
Inter-disciplinary research methods for international research on Conservation
Agriculture based sustainable intensification (CASI). By John M. Dixon et al.
Agricultural Science Special Issue: ACIAR at Work: Interdisciplinary research
into smallholder farming systems. Combined Volumes 30(2) and 31(1): Eds.
J.M.Dixon and S.G.Coffey (2019).
5. Bridging the disciplinary gap in conservation agriculture
research, in Malawi. A review. By Thirze D. G. Hermans et al. Agronomy for
Sustainable Development 40:3 ((2020).
6. Identifying the drivers and predicting the outcome of Conservation
Agriculture globally. By John P. Laborde et al. Agricultural Systems 177
(2020).
7. An Opportunity for Regenerative Rice Production: Combining
Plastic Film Cover and Plant Biomass Mulch with No-Till Soil Management to
Build Soil Carbon, Curb Nitrogen Pollution, and Maintain High-Stable Yield. By Shi
Hua Lv et al. Agronomy 9 (2019).
8. The spread of no-till in conservation agriculture systems in
Italy: indications for rural development policy-making. By Danilo Marandola et
al. Agricultural and Food Economics 7:7 (2019).
9. Modeling the Impacts of Conservation Agriculture with a Drip
Irrigation System on the Hydrology and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Tewodros Assefa et al. Sustainability 1 (2018).
10. Tillage and crop rotations enhance populations of earthworms,
termites, dung beetles and centipedes: evidence from a long-term trial in
Zambia. By T. Muoni et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 1:11 (2019).
11. Productivity and profitability of maize-legume cropping
systems under conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers in Malawi. By
Amos Gwira et al. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant
Science (2020).
12. Combining no-till with rye (Secale cerealeL.) cover crop mitigates
nitrous oxide emissions without decreasing yield. By Andrea Fiorinia et al. Soil
& Tillage Research 196 (2020).
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 much 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 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 and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and
nor is No-Till on its own (more at: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture).
Latest (2015/16) CA area information
available from: Global
spread of Conservation Agriculture. By A. Kassam et al. International Journal
of Environmental Studies. Published Online (2018).
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