Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

for sustainable agriculture and land management


Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the ACT January-February 2020 CA news aler.

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).



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From: Saidi Mkomwa <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 04:22
Subject: ACT January - February 2020 CA News Alert
To: Kassam Amir <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Amir,

Kindly share with the Global CA-CoP, the ACT January-February 2020 CA news alert as attached.

With best regards

 

 

With warmest regards

Saidi Mkomwa

Executive Secretary
African Conservation Tillage Network
Conservation Agriculture for Improved Livelihoods and a Better Environment
KALRO Kabete Compound, Waiyaki Way

P.O. Box 10375-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Email:
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Web:
http://www.act-africa.org/
Tel:
254 20 8076064

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Eng. Saidi Mkomwa

Executive Secretary
African Conservation Tillage Network
Conservation Agriculture for Improved Livelihoods and a Better Environment
KALRO Kabete Compound, Waiyaki Way

P.O. Box 10375-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Email:
[log in to unmask] 
Web:
http://www.act-africa.org/
Tel:
254 20 8076064;

Cell: 254 712 252549

 



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