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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Susbscribers,

Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Dennis Garrity
regarding The EverGreening the Earth Campaign.

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: Garrity, Dennis (ICRAF) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 09:02
Subject: Posting to Global Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice
(CA-CoP) about The EverGreening the Earth Campaign
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Amir,



I’d like to bring to the attention of our CA Community of Practice the
*EverGreening
the Earth Campaign,* which was launched during the recent Climate Week at
the UN Headquarters in New York.



The campaign goal is to concretely address the existential climate
emergency by achieving the massive scaling-up of evergreening practices
under six target areas, and to be *drawing down from the atmosphere at
least 20 billion tons of CO2 annually by the year 2050*, while improving
the lives of hundreds of millions of the rural poor. The latest version of
the white paper that describes the initiative in detail is available at:


https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l9ksvcmbm66y1a/EverGreening_CampaignPaper.pdf?dl=0


The Campaign has the ambition and scale that could be the basis for a very
interesting collaboration with many of our collaborators who are working
diligently to advance Conservation Agriculture around the world.



Target 2 of the Campaign focuses on the scaling-up of practices to increase
soil carbon, particularly through CA and Conservation Agriculture with
Trees.



I’d like to cordially invite readers to share their reactions to the white
paper, and to launch a conversation about how we might collaborate on
achieving its goals together. I look forward to continuing this discussion
in the coming weeks and months.



The Campaign is being championed by The Global EverGreening Alliance (
evergreening.org), whose 30 or so member organizations include nearly all
of the major development and conservation NGOs. It’s mission focuses on
implementing very large scaling-up initiatives, of which several are under
way with others under development. The Alliance welcomes new members, and I
would be very happy to hear from all those who may be interested in joining.


With my warmest regards,


Dennis


Dennis Garrity

Drylands Ambassador, UN Convention to Combat Desertification

Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre

Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

Chair, Global EverGreening Alliance

Chair, Landcare International



UN Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya

Mobile: +254 722 521204 <+254%20722%20521204>

Skype: garrity.d



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