Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land management
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.
Dear Amir,
One year to go: The FIELD DAY of the postponed 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (8WCCA) takes place June 24th, 2021 at Witzwil close to Gampelen in the Canton of Berne/Switzerland.
The local SWISS NO-TILL organizing committee has prepared the attached Save the date.
Would it be possible to distribute it with your CA CoP newsletter – right on June 24th? Thank you very much in advance!
Warmest regards,
Wolfgang
Wolfgang G. Sturny, Dr., Fachstellenleiter
+41 31 636 49 02 (direkt), +41 79 251 83 43 (mobile), [log in to unmask]
Wirtschafts-, Energie- und Umweltdirektion des Kantons Bern, Amt für Landwirtschaft und Natur
Abteilung Strukturverbesserungen und Produktion, Fachstelle Bodenschutz
Rütti 5, CH-3052 Zollikofen
+41 31 636 49 00, www.be.ch/bodenschutz
To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link:
&*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);