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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a press release on the two volume book: Advances in Conservation Agriculture.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

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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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NEW TWO-VOLUME COLLECTION ON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE

"This edifying book is a compendium of much of what we have learnt across the world about CA...It will serve as an immensely valuable source of reference - and inspiration - for all those who are committed to putting the world's food systems on a truly sustainable footing. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that I can recommend this book to you", says Qu Dongyu, Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Two important NEW books on Conservation Agriculture, edited by Professor Amir Kassam, University of Reading, UK, have been published by award winning Cambridge-based publisher, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited.
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a farming system that promotes continuous minimum soil disturbance, maintenance of a permanent soil cover and diversification of plant species. (FAO, 2020).
Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1: Systems and Science summarises research on key components for successful Conservation Agriculture (CA).

Chapters review the latest research on ways of optimising no-till techniques to minimise soil disturbance in relation to seeding, weeding and other operations. Chapters also review ways to improve soil health in CA, including mulch cover, cover crops, rotations and intercropping.

Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2: Practice and Benefits reviews ways of optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits.

Chapters summarise research on optimising soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, as well as weed, insect pest and disease management. The book also reviews ways of optimising the environmental and social benefits of adopting CA practices.

Jules Petty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, says about the book:

"This is an important, timely and authoritative collection on the values of Conservation Agriculture worldwide. Great advances have been made in recent years over a range of approaches and systems to improve both the productivity of agricultural systems and their positive contributions to ecosystem services and natural capital."

Francis delves deeper into the two volumes in this short video.
Professor Amir Kassam  is Visiting Professor at the University of Reading (UK) and Moderator of the FAO-hosted Global Platform for Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (Global CA-CoP). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK) and has received an OBE from the British Government for services to tropical agriculture and to rural development.

Prof. Kassam is Chair of the International Conservation Agriculture Advisory Panel for Africa (ICAAP-Africa), Member of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) and Vice-Chair of the Conservation Agriculture Association for the UK (CA-UK).

Note for editors 
Copies of Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1: Systems and Science can be obtained from Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited in print and digital formats costing: £150/$195/€180 from www.bdspublishing.com. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19103/AS.2019.0048

Copies of Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2: Practice and Benefits can be obtained from Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited in print and digital formats costing: £150/$195/€180 from www.bdspublishing.com. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19103/AS.2019.0049

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