Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

for sustainable agriculture and land management

Dear Subscribers,

Please see attached a response to a paper by Ranganathan, J., Waite, R., Searchinger, T and Zionts, J. (2020). Regenerative Agriculture: Good for Soil Health, but Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change. https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/05/regenerative-agriculture-climate-change.

The response is entitled: 'Climate change mitigation potential of regenerative agriculture is significant' by Keith Paustian, Claire Chenu, Rich Conant, Francesca Cotrufo, Rattan Lal, Pete Smith, Jean-Francois Soussana.

Regenerative Agriculture is Conservation Agriculture under a different name.

Thank you Maggie Willis (from Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University)  for sharing.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

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 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.

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 14:00
Subject: OSU C-MASC Newsletter Response to WRI: "Climate Mitigation Potential of Regenerative Agriculture is Significant"
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Dear Colleagues,

 

Attached is a recent article on the importance of regenerative agriculture to carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, which would be of interest to you.

 

Best wishes,

 

Maggie

 

Thank you for your patience in these unusual times. We wish you and your loved ones the best of health.

 



Maggie Willis

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Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
The Ohio State University  
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