*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Dr. ML Jat, CIMMYT, India, regarding the new article on “Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification in South Asia” just published in Nature Sustainability. Also, the message mentions the press release about the article from key partners and India’s NARS leadership; Dr T Mohapatra, Director General ICAR and Secretary, DARE, Govt of India. Thank you Dr. Jat for sharing. *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: JAT, Mangi Lal (CIMMYT-India) <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 09:44 Subject: Nature Sustainability-New Research evidence on CA for sustainable intensification is South Asia To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Dear Dr Amir Greetings from CIMMYT-India , New Delhi Hope all is going well. Am pleased to share our new article on “Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification in South Asia” just published in Nature Sustainability ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0500-2). This analysis is a product of the collaborative research of CIMMYT, ICAR, IRRI, US Davis & Cornell University and provides first of its kind synthesized evidence on CA in South Asia based on the work undertaken in the region over past 2 decades. This synthesis provides a larger picture of CA for potential benefits and may help policy planners and development agencies for prioritizing investments on CA for a multiple win Please also see link below for a press release of the same with messages from key partners and India’s NARS leadership; Dr T Mohapatra, Director General ICAR and Secretary, DARE, Govt of India. https://www.cimmyt.org/news/conservation-agriculture-key-in-meeting-un-sustainable-development-goals/ You may please share this among the CA-CoP Wish you and whole community a safe and healthy time under the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic Best regards, ML *ML Jat, **PhD; FNAAS; FISA* | Principal Scientist/Systems Agronomist *International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)* India Office, CG Block, National Agriculture Science Center (NASC) Complex, Pusa, New Delhi- 110 012, India *tel:* +91 (11) 55441938 *skype:* cimmyt1231 *cel:* +91 9999108787 website <http://www.cimmyt.org/en/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/cimmyt> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CIMMYT> | linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/cimmyt> | flickr <https://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/> | youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/CIMMYTint> [image: cid:image001.png@01D31848.3202C2B0] *This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information from CIMMYT and/or its collaborators. Unless explicitly allowed in writing by an authorized representative, any use, reproduction, storage, retransmission or unauthorized disclosure of such information, whether in part or in whole, is hereby forbidden. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender and delete it immediately.* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);