*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a self-explanatory announcement about the Living Soil Symposium which will be virtually offering few sessions per day from 27 April to 8 May 2020. Thank you Joel Williams for sharing. 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. * ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joel Williams <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 08:53 Subject: Living Soils Symposium To: Joel Williams <[log in to unmask]> Hi All, I hope you are keeping well. I'll be taking part in an online conference with many other great speakers over the next 2 weeks should any of you be seeking some extra curricular learning in your down time or while in the cab. The Living Soils Symposium <https://livingsoilssymposium.ca/en/> will [virtually] be featuring a few sessions per day from April 27 to May 8. This Tuesday 28th April at 4pm EST I'll be giving a webinar on the emerging paradigm of soil organic matter formation and strategies for building SOM [Note: that's 9pm for UK/IE, 10/11pm for EU or 6am on the 29th for Australian EST]. Speaker lineup here <https://livingsoilssymposium.ca/en/speakers-2020/> Timetable here <https://livingsoilssymposium.ca/en/schedule/> Tickets here <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/symposium-sols-vivants-2020-living-soils-symposium-2020-tickets-101917291362> Hope you have a fruitful season ahead. Warm Regards Joel -- Joel Williams integratedsoils.com @integratedsoils <https://twitter.com/IntegratedSoils> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);