Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION
AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management
Dear Subscribers,
Please see attached the announcement for and brief agenda of the upcoming Webinar on SAMA implementation. The webinar is on:
Operationalization of the Framework for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa (F-SAMA),
and will be held on Tuesday, 17th November 2020, 09:00 -11:30 hrs (GMT).
SAMA stands for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa. It is a framework developed by the African Union and the FAO. Launched in October 2018, it aims to inform policy and decision makers in the Member States, the Regional Economic Communities in Africa, and the wider development community dealing with agricultural development on the significance of mainstreaming SAM in the overall national and regional agricultural development programmes. SAMA includes the promotion of Conservation Agriculture as a means to sustainable production intensification and commercialization for smallholders in Africa.
The Webinar will provide the platform to share information and update on theprogress made by member states in operationalizing the framework. In addition to presentations, facilitated discussion and questions and answers sessions will be implemented to generate more insights into the issues being discussed. Experts from FAO, AUC, ACT, Directors and Heads of Agricultural Mechanization Services in SSA, and other mechanization stakeholders,will share experience on the importance of mechanization.
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global
CA-CoP
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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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Kienzle, Josef (NSP) <[log in to unmask]>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 11:20
Subject: FW: Webinars on sustainable agricultural mechanization for Africa
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Dear Amir,
We would be grateful if you could help us to dispatch this E-card announcement and brief agenda of the upcoming Webinar on SAMA implementation for us.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards
Josef