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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a communication regarding "Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture: Italy's response"from Sandra Corsi from the FAO Conservation Agriculture team.

Thank you Sandra 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.
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From: Corsi, Sandra (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 15:57
Subject: Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture: Italy's response
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Innovation and sustainable mechanization play a critical role in the long-term resilience of the agriculture sector and are a priority for both FAO and the Government of Italy.

"Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture: Italy's response" is now online<http://www.fao.org/sustainable-agricultural-mechanization/resources/news/detail-events/en/c/1305799/> on the FAO Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (SAM) website.

The paper was written by Dr Graziella Romito, Directorate-General of European Union and international policies of the Ministry of agricultural, food and forestry policies.




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Sandra Corsi, PhD
Conservation Agriculture and Climate-Smart Crop Production - Coordinator<http://www.fao.org/in-action/save-grow-climate-smart/en/>
Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)<http://www.fao.org/agriculture/plant-production-and-protection/en/>
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 570 56163 (Office)
Email:   [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Web:     www.fao.org<http://www.fao.org/>
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