*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Josef Kienzle of FAO, Rome, regarding the new *Dgroup on the Community of Practice on Sustainable Agriculture Mechanization (SAM)*. The FAO-SAM team invites you all to join the Community of Practice on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization. Thank you Josef and the SAM Team for this initiative and sharing the invitation. Apologies for any cross-posting. *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. * ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kienzle, Josef (NSP) <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 13:00 Subject: FW: Invitation to join CoP on SAM To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>, Saidi Mkomwa < [log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Cc: FloresRojas, Mayling (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>, Mpagalile, Joseph (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>, Corsi, Sandra (NSP) < [log in to unmask]>, Jiang, Shangchuan (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>, SantosValle, Santiago (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>, Muminjanov, Hafiz (NSP) <[log in to unmask]> Dear Amir, Dear Saidi, Dear Emilio, You may have already seen or may be already aware that we - the Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (SAM) team of FAO - have initiated a new Dgroup CoP on SAM. Below you find more details on it including the website link to it. Now. Because we all know that Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization are closely inter-linked. In fact SAM in practice (at least for field mechanization in crops) can only work if CA principles will be applied. This is the link and therefore to a large part we consider that CA issues may be also discuss in this group. In fact some of the most recent discussion themes were exactly these aspects. The group is still quite infant but growing steadily. We are working on making the SAM Dgroup list more popular and known in order to also get more interactive and to obtain more responses from members. . With this message, we all kindly ask you if you could share this below Email announcement with the CA-COP List and through the ACT-Newsletter and through the networks of ECAF. We would be very very pleased if you could do so. Thanks a lot in advance. Josef on behalf of the FAO - SAM team. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warm greetings, The sustainable agricultural mechanization team of FAO is eager to invite you to join the Community of Practice on sustainable agricultural mechanization. Please click this link: https://dgroups.org/fao/mechanization/. This CoP brings together people, institutions, organizations, and the public and private sector around the world with a shared field of interest: *sustainable agricultural mechanization adapted to smallholder farmers and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve livelihoods.* You can share your knowledge and experience on sustainable agricultural mechanization by sending an email to all the members to [log in to unmask] By sending an email you can ask questions, provoke discussion, and tell us about specific topics you would like to learn more. You can also upload information (e.g. publications, presentations, links) to the Community of Practice library ( https://dgroups.org/fao/mechanization/library). Please share this invitation with the members of your network. Thanks and Best Regards, The sustainable agricultural mechanization team Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);