Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION
AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land
management
Please herebelow the FAO publeication update -- Issue No 33.
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).