Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION
AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management
Dear Subscribers,
The 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (8WCCA)
(
https://8wcca.org/) will be held during 21-24 June 2021 in
Zollikofen/Bern, Switzerland. In preparation towards the 8WCCA, FAO and the
European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) are organizing a
series of online webinars and regional discussions to increase awareness
of the concepts and practices for Conservation Agriculture (CA).
Conservation Agriculture is a farming system that promotes continuous no or minimum
soil disturbance (i.e. no tillage), maintenance of a permanent soil vegetative cover,
and diversification of plant species. It enhances biodiversity and natural
biological processes above and below the ground surface, which
contribute to increased water and nutrient use efficiency and to improved and sustained crop production.
http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture/en/ .
This webinar is the first out of the series to be organized and covers the
main topic of the 8WCCA.
Profitable and Sustainable Farming with
Conservation Agriculture: The future of
farming.
It will be held on Thursday 8 October 2020
14:00-15:00 hrs (Rome Time – CET).
The seminar will be presented by Professor Gottlieb Basch, President of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF).
Information on the webinar agenda, the planned webinars in the series and where to register are provided in the attachment.