Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

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Please see herebelow the Newsletter from the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative and the announcement regarding the webinar:

Ecological networks in belowground communities

October 12, 2021 7-8:30 am MDT, 3-4:30pm CEST, 2-3:30pm BST

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Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

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URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture

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The CA area data up to 2018/19 is available at: CA Stat — CA Global (ca-global.net)

 

Conservation Agriculture (CA) 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 complementary good agricultural production and land management practices to generate and sustain optimum performance.

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October 2021 Newsletter
Announcing the next "GSBI Speaks" webinar:


October 12, 2021 7-8:30am MDT, 3-4:30pm CEST, 2-3:30pm BST

If you missed the June webinar, "Climate change-induced
wildfire effects on soil biodiversity", watch it here!

Dr. Lucas William Mendes, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, discusses his new paper in Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry.

The International Federation of Nematology Societies virtual symposium on the symbiosis between entomopathogenic nematodes and bacteria with Helge Bode (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and Adler Dillman (University of California, Riverside) will be held virtually on October 6, 2021 15:00 UK Time.
The GSBI encourages researchers with expertise in soil biodiversity to participate in the external review of the draft nature futures framework and methodological guidance document, which is open for review until 31 October 2021. This is an opportunity for soil biodiversity experts to encourage wording and concepts to keep soil biodiversity science at the forefront of environmental policy and decision making.
For those wishing to participate as an expert reviewer in the external review:
  1. Register as a user of the IPBES website if you haven’t done so.
  2. Register as an expert reviewer on the draft online. (Note, you must do step one first).

The Coordinating Committee International Voluntary Service's (CCISV) initiative People4Soil, is collecting signatures for a manifesto on soil protection.


The text of this reflects solely the views of Soil4Life, People4Soil, and the CCIVS and in no way can be taken to reflect the views of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative.

Applications for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists are now being accepted! Awardees must have made a demonstrable impact on the research environment, both at a regional and international level, must be living and working in developing countries, and must have received their PhD in the last ten years.
Deadline: 28 October 2021 (24:00 CET)

The EDAFOS program is an interactive, multiplatform program that allows you to acquire knowledge about Soil Science and practice with self-evaluating exercises and activities. This online, self-learning tool is available in Spanish and in English and reviews the components, the soil formation factors and processes and the ecosystem services of the soils.

We would like to clarify that the new collection of children's books was published as part of the recent Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity by both the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). The new collection of children's book on soil biodiversity called is "The Magical World of Soil Biodiversity." The collection is available for free download on the FAO website.
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