*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please herebelow a sef-explanatory message from Jean-Marc Boffa regarding the book *Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa: Priorities for science and policy under global change.* The book will be accessible from ICRAF's website in the future. Thank you Jean-Marc 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. * ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Boffa, Jean-Marc (ICRAF) <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 at 07:49 Subject: Weblink to download African Farming Systems Book chapters To: Boffa, Jean-Marc (ICRAF) <[log in to unmask]> Dear Colleagues, Our book: 'Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa: Priorities for science and policy under global change' is now available online in individual chapters at the following address: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/publication/farming-systems-and-food-security-africa-priorities-science-and-policy-under-global ICRAF mentioned that the prelims and the whole book (large file!) pdfs will also be posted there in the near future. I will let you know when that is done. Kind regards, Jean-Marc Boffa ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);