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



*for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management *

*Alert No. 75 (24 May 2022)*



*1.    **Long Term Effects of Tillage–Crop Rotation Interaction on Soil
Organic Carbon Pools and Microbial Activity on Wheat-Based System in
Mediterranean Semi-Arid Region. By Sayda Jaziri et al. Agronomy 12. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mgw9jtz0pefkjy/Jaziri%20et%20al%20tillage%20and%20rotation%20interactionagronomy-12-00953-v2.pdf?dl=0>



*2.    **Open Questions and Research Needs in the Adoption of Conservation
Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area. By Michele Rinaldi et al. Agronomy
12. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ka86ql7jot4dged/Anabi%20et%20al%20open%20questions%20adoption%20of%20CA%20in%20med%20areas%20agronomy-12-01112.pdf?dl=0>



*3.    **Conservation Agriculture in Semi-Arid Zimbabwe: A Promising
Practice to Improve Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana Gaertn.) Productivity
and Soil Water Availability in the Short Term. By Vengai Mbanyele et al.
Agriculture 12. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/39krpk0z2udkzdg/Mbanyeleetal2022%20Finger%20millet%20with%20CA.pdf?dl=0>



*4.    **Impact and opportunity of Conservation Agriculture on food and
nutrition security in Timor Leste. By Vincente De et al. National Centre
for Scientific Research, National University of Timor Lorosa’e and FAO,
Dili, Timor Leste. 2018.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3qbteollch3vyi/CA%20in%20Timor%20Leste.pdf?dl=0>



*5.    **Effect of Catch Crops and Tillage Systems on the Content of
Selected Nutrients in Spring Wheat Grain. By Cezary Andrzej Kwiatkowski et
al. Agronomy 22. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4rz2gkaeim6d0a/Kwiatkowski%2C%20et%20al%20Catch%20crop%20%26%20enzymes%20agronomy-12-01054.pdf?dl=0>



*6.    **Comparison of mechanized conservation agriculture and conventional
tillage in Zambia: A short-term agronomic and economic analysis. By Godfrey
Omulo et al. Soil & Tillage Research 221. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/30im9xj5u1vx2rz/Omulo%20et%20al%20Mechanized%20CA%201-s2.0-S0167198722001003-main.pdf?dl=0>



*7.    **Weed interference and wheat productivity in a conservation
agriculture-based maize-wheat-mungbean system. By S. Ghosh et al. Journal
of Crop and Weed, 18(1): 111-119. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7n3q2ia1noynn6/Gosh%20et%20al%20wheat%20maize%20moong%20CA%2018-1-17.pdf?dl=0>




*8.    **Improving Water Productivity in Conservation Agriculture. By
Girija Prasad Patnaik et al. Advances in Agronomy Vol. 17. AkiNik
Publications, New Delhi. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/c2yb2uvmqspfc6t/Improving%20water%20in%20CA%20AdvancesinagronomyBook.pdf?dl=0>



*9.    **Early season plant cover supports more effective pest control than
insecticide applications. By Elizabeth K. Rowen et al. Ecological
Applications. 2021.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ac83t2rlkuu65q0/Rowenal2022-EcologicalApplications-Earlyseasonplantcoversupportsmoreeffectivepestcontrolthaninsecticide.pdf?dl=0>



*10. **Sustainable Intensification of a Rice–Maize System through
Conservation Agriculture to Enhance System Productivity in Southern India.
By Mangal Deep Tuti et al. Plants 11. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xgbvs8wljq1i6w/Tuti%20et%20al.%20CA%20Rice-Maize%20in%20southern%20India%20plants-11-012291.pdf?dl=0>



*11. **Zero tillage has important consequences for soil pore architecture
and hydraulic transport: A review. By D. Luke R. Wardak et al. Geoderma
422. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/4x4hkca3fugubij/Wardak%20et%20al%20zero-tillage%20pore%20space%201-s2.0-S0016706122002348-main.pdf?dl=0>



*12. **Integration of tillage indices and textural features of Sentinel-2A
multispectral images for maize residue cover estimation. By Xiaoyun Xiang
et al. Soil & Tillage Research 221. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/3k2zkyofd7f703x/Xiang%20et%20al%20Tillage%20differences%20China%201-s2.0-S0167198722000915-main.pdf?dl=0>



*13. **Ditching the Plough: A social history of how Western Australian
farmers started a revolution in their paddocks that gave us modern farming.
MSc Thesis. By Jo Fulwood. Murdoch University, Australia. 2021.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgxbof1b8ghuwok/34110204%20Joanne%20Fulwood%20RMT%20Thesis%20February%202022-1.pdf?dl=0>



*14. **Global Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential Map (GSOCseq
v.1.1) Technical report. FAO, Rome. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1oltekxms50yhz/C%20seq%20potential%20map%20FAO.pdf?dl=0>



*15. **Recarbonizing Global Soils: A technical manual of recommended
management practices. 6 volumes. FAO, Rome. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/hn0272rtannoqvi/GSP_SOC_Maintenance_Highlight.jpg?dl=0>



*16. **Ecosystem Services: Types, Management and Benefits. Edited by
Hanuman Singh Jatav and Vishnu D. Rajput. Nova Science Publishers, New
York, USA. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlc2vcxz9egh00m/Ecosystem%20Services.pdf?dl=0>



*17. **Climate change, agriculture and livelihoods in Lebanon: Consolidated
livelihoods exercise for analyzing resilience. By Nadim Farajalla et al.
American University of Beirut and World Food Progamme. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/exnlnnx4bmi9frh/WFP%20Lebanon%20CLEAR%20Study%20Climate%20change%2C%20agriculture%2C%20and%20livelihoods%20in%20Lebanon.pdf?dl=0>



*18. **Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Stakeholders Conference.
Accra, Ghana. 1-2 December 2020. Edited by Oluwole A. Fatunbi and Paolo
Sarfatti.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6xqgq9mvd2i2cy/FARA%20csa-proceedings-revised-finaldownload.pdf?dl=0>



*19. **The Future of Agriculture: A common agenda -- Recommendations of the
Commission on the Future of Agriculture (ZKL). 2021.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/evyo0pui7bpzriz/Future%20of%20Agriculture%20A%20common%20agenda%20Recommendations%20of%20the%20European%20Commission%202021-11-17-landwirtschaft-data%20PDF.pdf?dl=0>



*20. **The Future of Food Production. Association of Equipment
Manufacturers. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/n23r78yw2a1ltl0/Future-of-Food-Production%20AEM-%20Association%20of%20Equipment%20Manufacturers%20May%202022%20PDF.pdf?dl=0>



*21. **Transforming Food Systems with Farmers: A Pathway for the EU.
Insight Paper. World Economic Forum. 2022.*
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/xcc04ovt3jn0lfl/WEF_Transforming_Food_Systems_with_Farmers_A_Pathway_for_the_EU_2022.pdf?dl=0>



*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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

URL: http://www.act-africa.org/

URL: https://ecaf.org/
URL: http://www.caa-ap.org/



*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.*



*CA 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.
CA systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to optimally harness a
range of productivity, economic, environmental, and social benefits as well
as address local and global concerns related to food and water security,
climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and smallholder agricultural
development.*



*Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage, Low tillage and Minimum Tillage are
not CA, and nor is No-Till on its own. For a practice or a method to be
referred to as a CA practice or method, it must be part of a CA system. If
not, then it is what it is, a practice or a method similar to any other
with its own* *name e.g., no-till seeding, or mulching, or crop
diversification, etc. There is no such thing as partial CA.*



The 2018/19 CA area information is available at: *CA Stat — CA Global
(ca-global.net)* <https://www.ca-global.net/ca-stat>

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