*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see attached the latest WASWAC Hot News issue 3 of 2020. 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: waswac <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 10:06 Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: amirkassam786 <[log in to unmask]> Dear WASWAC members, Attached please find the Hot News for issue 3 of 2020. (1) Tips for epidemic prevention in different languages. (2) Upcoming meeting: GEA International Conference. (3) Contents of Issue 1, 2020 for ISWCR. Welcome your suggestions and comments. All the best, Dr. Ying Zhao Secretariat of WASWAC WASWAC The Secretariat of WASWAC Room 402, IRTCES Building No. 20 Chegongzhuang Road West Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China Tel.: +86 10 6878 6579 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.waswac.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);