*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*



*for sustainable agriculture and land management *



*Alert No. 62 (5 May 2020) *

*1.    **Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification in South
Asia. By. M.L.Jat et al. Nature Sustainability | Vol 3 | April 2020 |
336–343 | www.nature.com/natsustain336.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/51klc8l0r5pgmdq/2020%20Jat%20et%20al%20Nature%20Sustainability.pdf?dl=0>


*2.    **Sustainable Intensification in Dryland Cropping
Systems—Perspectives for Adaptions across the Western Siberian Grain Belt.
By Insa Khuling et al. Agriculture 2018, 8, 63;
doi:10.3390/agriculture8050063*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba3mnh53k3hs8s5/agriculture-08-00063-Dryland%20cropping%20western%20Siberia.pdf?dl=0>


*3.    **Evaluation of FAO’s Contribution to the Conservation Agriculture
Thematic Cluster. By Office of Evaluation, FAO, Italy. 2018.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5mgsj09hcnxvis/CA%20in%20Indonesia%20and%20East%20Timur%20FAO%20evaluation.pdf?dl=0>


*4.    **Effects of No-Tillage and Conventional Tillage on Physical and
Hydraulic Properties of Fine Textured Soils under Winter Wheat. By Mirko
Castellini et al. Water 2019, 11, 484; doi:10.3390/w11030484.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/jv5t785shnhnn1f/Catellini%20no-till%20Italy.pdf?dl=0>


*5.    **Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1: Systems and Science
and Volume 2: Practice and Benefits. Edited by Amir Kassam. Burleigh Dodds,
Cambridge, UK, 2202.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/icnuehqf0yny5l1/Conservation%20Agriculture%20-%20Vol%201%20%26%202%20LeafletR.pdf?dl=0>


*6.    **Phosphorus distribution after three decades of different soil
management and cover crops in subtropical region. By Danilo dos Santos
Rheinheime et al. Soil & Tillage Research 192:33-41. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9dal3nwy535z1z7/Danilo%20Brazil%20Phosphorus%20distribution%20after%20three%20decades%20.pdf?dl=0>


*7.    **Impacts of Conservation Agriculture on soil structure and
hydraulic properties of Malawian agricultural systems. By Samuel Eze et al.
Soil & Tillage Research 201:1-8. 2020.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkwvl14s63e1om2/Eze%20et%20al.%202020%20CA%20and%20soil%20hydraulic%20properties.pdf?dl=0>


*8.    **Soil Health, Conservation, and U.S. Agriculture Policy:
Identifying soil quality and conservation agriculture adoption in New York.
By Jamie Fanous  GIS 102 | May 2018.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/wze0vt9quolbqlp/Fanous_Jamie_GIS102_2018.pdf?dl=0>


*9.    **How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A
systematic review. By Neal R. Haddaway et al. Environ Evid  (2017) 6:30 DOI
10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9cw9ebvyq675svh/Haddaway%20Metanalisis%20Soc%20SD.pdf?dl=0>


*10. **The influence of soil management on soil health: An on-farm study in
southern Sweden. By Hanna Williams et al. Geoderma 360 (2020) 114010.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0959ge6apfnfe3/Hanna%20Williams%20Soil%20management%20Sweden.pdf?dl=0>


*11. **Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture. By Muhammad Farooq and
Michele Pisante. Springer. 2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/xub9j2c24g6yvpx/Innovations%2Bin%2BSustainable%2BAgriculture%20-2019.pdf?dl=0>


*12. **The novelist who loved soil. A biography digs into Pulitzer
prizewinner and farming pioneer Louis Bromfield’s life. A book review by
David Montgomery. 2020.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/sblmm0rgdiu049v/Novelist%20who%20loved%20soil%20Montgomery.pdf?dl=0>


*13. **Conservation agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy in
Zimbabwe. By Deb O’Dell et al. International Journal of Agricultural
Sustainability. Published online 17 April 2020. DOI:
10.1080/14735903.2020.1750254.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5z3cke6ez333vz/O%27Dell%20et%20al.%202020.Conservation%20agriculture%20as%20a%20climate%20change%20mitigation%20strategy%20in%20Zimbabwe.pdf?dl=0>


*14. **Soil Health Education & Resource Guide 5th Edition. By Green Cover
Seed. Featuring articles by Gabe Brown, Rolf Derpsch, Dwayne Beck, Jay
Fuhrer, Allen Williams, Ray Archuleta,  Christine Jones, Wendy Taheri,
Jonathan Lundgren, Dale Strickler, and more.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/2usy0leyl815vxr/Soil-Health-Resource-Guide-Eng.pdf?dl=0>


*15. **Synthesizing Conservation Motivations and Barriers: What Have We
Learned from Qualitative Studies of Farmers’ Behaviors in the United
States? By Pranay Ranjan et al.  Society & Natural Resources. 32:11,
1171-1199, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1648710  Published online 15 August
2019.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjtoslpv3gx0fa2/Synthesizing%20Conservation%20Motivations%20and%20Barriers%20What%20Have%20We%20Learned%20from%20Qualitative%20Studies%20of%20Farmers%20Behaviors%20in%20the%20United%20States.pdf?dl=0>



*16. **Evaluation of Agricultural Sustainability on a Mixed Vineyard and
Olive-Grove Farm in Southern Spain through the INSPIA Model. By Paula
Triviño-Tarradas et al. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1090;
doi:10.3390/su12031090.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2h5zomr1rnyv1l/Trivino%20ISPIA%20Perennial%20systems%20in%20S%20Spain%20sustainability.pdf?dl=0>


*17. **Sources of Variability that Compromise Mineralizable Carbon as a
Soil Health Indicator. By Jordon Wade et al. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.
82:243–252 doi:10.2136/sssaj2017.03.0105. (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yz4fmd5l4ywmgwm/Wadeetal2018-SSSAJ-Cminvariability.pdf?dl=0>


*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 much 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 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 and Minimum Tillage
are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own (more at:
*http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture*
<http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture>).



Latest (2015/16) CA area information available from: *Global spread of
Conservation Agriculture. By A. Kassam et al. International Journal of
Environmental Studies. Published Online (2018).
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfpkexyerbcs9n5/Global%20spread%20of%20C%20paper%20Corrected%20GENV_A_1494927_O.pdf?dl=0>*


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