Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture
and land management
3. Long-term research needed to avoid spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no-till. By Cusser et al. This version was posted on October 8, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/788240.
4. Rotation, Mulch and Zero Tillage Reduce Weeds in a Long-Term Conservation Agriculture Trial. By Fonteyne et al. Agronomy 2020, 10, 962; doi:10.3390/agronomy10070962.
5. How to measure greenhouse gas soil fluxes. White Paper. By Gasmet. www.gasmet.com
6. Wheat Stubble from Conventional or Conservation Agriculture Grazed by Ewes: Biomass Dynamics and Animal Performances. By Hajer et al. Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology (2020) 20 : 187-200 DOI: 10.5958/0974-181X.2020.00018.9.
9. Longitudinal analysis of a long-term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design. By Lark et al. Experimental Agriculture (2020), 1–22 doi:10.1017/S0014479720000125.
13. Conservation Agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy in Zimbabwe. By O’Dell et al. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 2020, VOL. 18, NO. 3, 250–265 https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1750254
16. Climate mitigation potential of regenerative agriculture is significant! Paustian et al. June 2020.
18. Implications of Adoption of Zero Tillage (ZT) on Productive Efficiency and Production Risk of Wheat Production. By El-Shater et al. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3640; doi:10.3390/su12093640.
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
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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