*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture, land and ecosystem management* Dear Subscribers,. Please see attached the last December 2020 issue of the WASWAC Hot News. 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*. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: waswac <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 03:47 Subject: WASWAC Hot News To: amirkassam786 <[log in to unmask]> Dear WASWAC members, Happy holidays! Attached please find the Hot News for issue 12 of 2020. (1) WASWAC President's New Year Message of 2021 (2) EU Soil Observatory launched on December 4 (3) Updated CiteScore of ISWCR in December 2020 Welcome your suggestions and comments. All the best, Dr. Ying Zhao Secretariat of WASWAC WASWAC The Secretariat of WASWAC Room 402, IRTCES Building No. 20 Chegongzhuang Road West Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China Tel.: +86 10 6878 6579 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.waswac.org.cn ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);