*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management *
*Alert No. 64 (19 November 2020)*
*1. **Phosphorus speciation by P-XANES in an Oxisol under long-term
no-till cultivation. By João A. Antonangelo et al. Geoderma 377 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/184vt6a0mx89b6q/Antonangeloetal2020PspeciationXANESOxisollong-termno-tillcultivation-1.pdf?dl=0>
*2. **Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints,
Technologies, Policies and Processes. By Richard Sikora et al. Earthscan
(2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/wz23s8za518evz8/Tranforming%20Ag%20in%20SA%20Sikora%20et%20al.pdf?dl=0>
*3. **Productivity or stability? Exploring maize-legume intercropping
strategies for smallholder Conservation Agriculture farmers in Zimbabwe. By
Connie Madembo et al. Agricultural Systems 185 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ob3ycyuryejrr6y/Madembo%20et%20al.%202020.%20Exploring%20maize%20intercropping%20CA%20systems-1.pdf?dl=0>
*4. **Local adaptation strategies to increase or maintain soil organic
carbon content under arable farming in Europe: Inspirational ideas for
setting operational groups within the European innovation partnership. By
E.A.C. Costantini et al. Journal of Rural Studies 79 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xm1wnv8tpdzyrb/Constantini%20local%20strategy%20to%20maintain%20soil%20carbon.pdf?dl=0>
*5. **The Effect of Conservation Agriculture and Environmental Factors
on CO2 Emissions in a Rainfed Crop Rotation. By Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo et
al. Sustainability 11 (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5hyvxt4bvab6yq/CA%20and%20environmnetal%20factors%20on%20C%20emissions%20Rosa.pdf?dl=0>
*6. **Implications of Adoption of Zero Tillage (ZT) on Productive
Efficiency and Production Risk of Wheat Production. By Tamer El-Shater et
al. Sustainability 12 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxjjosnow9mr2qs/Implication%20of%20adopting%20no-till%20Syria.pdf?dl=0>
*7. **The Ability of Conservation Agriculture to Conserve Soil Organic
Carbon and the Subsequent Impact on Soil Physical, Chemical, and Biological
Properties and Yield. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4:31 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbc63fknng4kbc1/CA%20on%20SOM%20and%20soil%20properties%20Page.pdf?dl=0>
*8. **A review of conservation agriculture research in South Africa. By
Corrie M Swanepoel et al. South African Journal of Plant and Soil (2017).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/lui6f840hlja66h/Review_of_CA_in_SouthAfrica_2017.pdf?dl=0>
*9. **Farmers' risk-based decision making under pervasive uncertainty:
Cognitive thresholds and hazy hedging. By Kieran M Findlater et al. Risk
Analysis, 39(8) (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wnq1tffcj75glo/Findlateretal.2019-Farmersrisk-baseddecisionmakingunderpervasiveuncertainty-Cognitivethresholdsandhazyhedging_PREPRINT-1.pdf?dl=0>
*10. * *Enhancing NDCS for food systems recommendations for
decision-makers. By Ingrid Shulte et al. WWF, Germany, Berlin.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/0oqlq6wd10031s1/Enhancing%20NDCs%20for%20food%20systems%20UNEP-EAT.pdf?dl=0>
*11. * *Putting Carbon back where it belongs - the potential of carbon
sequestration in the soil. By Stefan Schwarzer, UN Environment /
GRID-Geneva and University of Geneva (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rxzotxmmqr4y9q/UNEP2019_CseqForesight0%20Puuting%20carbon%20where%20it%20belongs.pdf?dl=0>
*12. * *Conservation Agriculture – A way to improve soil health. By Gayatri
Sahu et al. Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences 8(4)
(2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmqi7ixfdxccco3/Sahuetal.JEBAS%20CA%20and%20soil%20health.pdf?dl=0>
*13. * *The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological
efficiency of human development in the Anthropocene. Jason Hickel.
Ecological Economics 167 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/5a5z1h8scarrdfs/The-Sustainable-Development-Index-by-Jason-Hickel-2019.pdf?dl=0>
*14. * *Application of Conservation Agriculture Principles for the
Management of Field Crops Pests Morris Fanadzo et al. Sustainable
Agriculture Reviews 28, Ecology for Agriculture 28 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/rj5j6hbfxsyeotj/Fanadzo2018_Chapter4-2%20CA%20for%20pest%20management.pdf?dl=0>
*15. * *Comparison on Farmers' Profile, Knowledge and Problems Association
of Straw Management in Punjab and West Bengal. By Pinaki Roy and Manmeet
Kaur. Indian Journal of Extension Education Vol. 55 (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/v92vs7caryul4vu/Straw%20management%20in%20Punjab%20and%20West%20Bengal.pdf?dl=0>
*16. * *Hire Services as a business enterprise: A training manual for
small-scale mechanization service providers. By Brian Sims et al. Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center Rome (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/1c91icyrrkarfmf/Hire%20service%20as%20a%20business.pdf?dl=0>
*17. ** Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil
Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta et al. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11:3684 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/t95tub3q471996l/Biodiversity%20drives%20C%20use%20eff.pdf?dl=0>
*18. * *Soil Protein as a Rapid Soil Health Indicator of Potentially
Available Organic Nitrogen. By Tunsisa T. Hurisso et al. Agric. Environ.
Lett. 3:180006 (2018).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/519tpbi8axoo2mq/Hurisso%20et%20al%202018%20Soil%20protein%20as%20a%20rapid%20soil%20health%20indicator%20of%20potentially%20available%20organic%20N-1.pdf?dl=0>
*19. * *The concept and future prospects of soil health. By
Johannes Lehmann et al. PERSPECTIVES Nature Reviews, Earth & Environment
(2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts9shutf1x0h5dh/Lehmann2020_Concept%20and%20future%20prospects%20of%20soil%20health-1.pdf?dl=0>
*20. * *Conservation Agriculture Increases Profits in an Andean Region of
South America. By J. A. Delgado et al. Agrosyst. Geosci. Environ. 2:180050
(2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsxhw6dnlek67bq/Conservation_Agriculture_Increases_Profits_in_an_A-1.pdf?dl=0>
*21. * *Conservation Agriculture Increases Yields and Economic Returns of
Potato, Forage, and Grain Systems of the Andes. By V.H. Barrera Mosquera et
al. Agron. J. 111:2747–2753 (2019).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9zp0i3yie3x1f1/Conservation_Agriculture_Increases_Yields_and_Econ-1.pdf?dl=0>
*22. * *Sustainable Soil Management for Food Security in South Asia. By
Ahmad Nawaz et al. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0ggd64xg8bg0dq/JSSPN%2C%20Nawaz%20et%20al.%2C%20Sustainable%20soil%20management%20in%20South%20Asia.pdf?dl=0>
*23. **Carbon Dioxide Fluxes and Carbon Stocks under Conservation
Agricultural Practices in South Africa Patrick Nyambo et al. Agriculture
10, 374 (2020).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qwk6bzrfpgu1ggk/CO2%20fluxes%20and%20C%20stocks%20in%20CA%20in%20SA.pdf?dl=0>
*24. * *Rubber-leguminous shrub systems stimulate soil N2O but reduce CO2
and CH4 emissions. By Xin Rao et al. Forest Ecology and Management (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ko9asbldi5ojtgo/Rubber-leguminous%20shrub%20systems%20stimulate%20soil%20N2O%20but%20reduce%20CO2%20and__CH4%20emissions-1.pdf?dl=0>
*25. * *Short-term impacts of different tillage practices and plant residue
retention on soil physical properties and greenhouse gas emissions. By K.
Alskaf et al. Soil & Tillage Research (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovp6mb52as4xjv3/Alskaf%20et%20al%202020%20Short-term%20impacts%20of%20different%20tillage%20practices%20and%20plant%20residue%20retention%20on%20soil%20physical%20properties%20and%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions-1.pdf?dl=0>
*26. * *Ecosystem service mapping in soybean agroecosystems. By Saeid
Moushan et al. Ecological Indicators 121 (2021).*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/imm0fh89nm2vhgt/Ecosystem%20service%20mapping%20in%20soybean%20agroecosystems%20%282021%29-1.pdf?dl=0>
*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 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*
<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).
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfpkexyerbcs9n5/Global%20spread%20of%20C%20paper%20Corrected%20GENV_A_1494927_O.pdf?dl=0>*
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