*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please seen herebelow the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative Newsletter -
November 202.

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 ecological approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and ecosystem 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).* *These
practices are complemented with other good agricultural production and land
management practices.* *Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all
continents*.

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From: Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 06:00
Subject: GSBI Newsletter - November 2020
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November 2020 Newsletter
First ever report on Global Soil Biodiversity to be released! Thanks to all
of you who contributed.

The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
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with other organizations including the Global Soil Partnership, were
invited to contribute to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO)
report on the “State of Knowledge on Soil Biodiversity: Status, Challenges,
and Potentialities” called for by the UN Convention on Biological
Diversity. The official launch of the report will be 4 December 2020 from
14:00-15:15 CET.
Learn more about the Global Soil Biodiversity Report
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Please join us for the first webinar titled "First Global Soil Biodiversity
Assessment: From science to policy - Part I" will be held on November 12,
2020 at 8am - 9:30am MT. You can learn more about the entire webinar series
on the GSBI website
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Read the New Posts in the GSBI Blog Beneath Our Feet
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Nematodes driving the fate of carbon under climate change
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by Dr. Andre Franco, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA

Dr. Franco writes about a new paper in Functional Ecology
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Advances in Nematology 2020 Submission Due Soon
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The Association of Applied Biologists
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virtual conference on Advances in Nematology
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is 15 December 2020. Abstracts are due 12 November 2020.
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