*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow an announcement regarding Conservation Agriculture 2030 Conference - 22 & 23 June 2020, University of Sydney, Australia. 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: Katie McRobert <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 23:03 Subject: Conservation Agriculture 2030 Conference - 22 & 23 June 2020, University of Sydney, Australia To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Thank you very much for the suggestions Amir - much appreciated. Perhaps we will see you at our conference in June http://farminstitute.org.au/events/index.html 🙂 Warm regards, Katie *Katie McRobert **General Manager* *Australian Farm Institute *Suite 73, 61 Marlborough St Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia *M* +61 477 758 257 *T* +61 2 9690 1388 *E* *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> **W* *www.farminstitute.org.au <http://www.farminstitute.org.au/> **Australian Farm Institute – New thinking about agriculture* ------------------------------ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);