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.
2. Open Questions and Research Needs in the Adoption of
Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area. By Michele Rinaldi et al.
Agronomy 12. 2022.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8. Improving Water Productivity in Conservation Agriculture. By
Girija Prasad Patnaik et al. Advances in Agronomy Vol. 17. AkiNik Publications,
New Delhi. 2022.
9. Early season plant cover supports more effective pest control
than insecticide applications. By Elizabeth K. Rowen et al. Ecological
Applications. 2021.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14. Global Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential Map
(GSOCseq v.1.1) Technical report. FAO, Rome. 2022.
15. Recarbonizing Global Soils: A technical manual of recommended
management practices. 6 volumes. FAO, Rome. 2022.
16. Ecosystem Services: Types, Management and Benefits. Edited by
Hanuman Singh Jatav and Vishnu D. Rajput. Nova Science Publishers, New York,
USA. 2022.
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.
18. Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Stakeholders
Conference. Accra, Ghana. 1-2 December 2020. Edited by Oluwole A. Fatunbi and
Paolo Sarfatti.
19. The Future of Agriculture: A common agenda -- Recommendations
of the Commission on the Future of Agriculture (ZKL). 2021.
20. The Future of Food Production. Association of Equipment
Manufacturers. 2022.
21. Transforming Food Systems with Farmers: A Pathway for the EU.
Insight Paper. World Economic Forum. 2022.
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
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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)
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