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.


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


3.    Evaluation of FAO’s Contribution to the Conservation Agriculture Thematic Cluster. By Office of Evaluation, FAO, Italy. 2018.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


11. Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture. By Muhammad Farooq and Michele Pisante. Springer. 2019.


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.


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.


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.


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.     


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.


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).


Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

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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).

 

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).


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