*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management * *Alert No. 76 (25 July 2022)* *1. **Understanding Conservation Agriculture in terms of Knowledge, Perception and Application. By Riti Chatterjee et al. Indian Journal of Extension Education Vol. 58, No. 3: 99-103. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/6j3guivhocmmb2h/21.IJEEVol.583-2022final9.6.22.pdf?dl=0> *2. **Soil quality indicators in conventional and conservation tillage systems in the Brazilian Cerrado. By Luiz Alberto da Silva Rodrigues Pinto et al. Environmental Earth Sciences 81:306. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0yj29ek230om94/2022_Pintoetal_SoilQuality%20Brazil.pdf?dl=0> *3. **Opportunities from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Identify Differences in Weed Spatial Distribution between Conventional and Conservation Agriculture. By Nebojša Nikolic et al. Sustainability 14, 6324. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6uplvgdm91j385/Aerial%20vehicles%20to%20identify%20weeds%20sustainability-14-06324.pdf?dl=0> *4. **A review of the needs, challenges and policy implications of the Conservation Agriculture-based resource conservation technologies. By Jyoti Bala and Vivek Singh. The Pharma Innovation Journal SP-11(7): 2407-2414. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5xbsbhuj8nccvm/Bala%20CA%20review.pdf?dl=0> *5. **An Approach to Understand Conservation Agriculture. By Anwesha Dey et al. In: Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies, Chapter 9. Eds. P. Kumar, A. K. Pandey, S.K. Singh, S. S. Singh and V. K. Singh. Wiley. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/59v21pinoaionhj/Day%20et%20al%20AnApproachtoUnderstandConservationAgriculture.pdf?dl=0> *6. **Model proposal for adjusting the resistance curve to penetration in Oxisol under no-till conditions. By João Tavares Filhoa and Thadeu Rodrigues Melo. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2022* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/20y3onfhnntcb7s/Filho%20and%20Melo%20MODEL%20PROPOSAL%20FOR%20ADJUSTING%20THE%20RESISTANCE%20CURVE%20TO.pdf?dl=0> *.* *7. **Influence of Leguminous Cover Crops on Soil Chemical and Biological Properties in a No‐Till Tropical Fruit Orchard. Ariel Freidenreich et al. Land 11, 932. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/aujgjkv7pi72w3j/Freidenreich%20et%20al%20cover%20crops%20in%20tropic%20orchards.pdf?dl=0> *8. **Assessment of benefits of Conservation Agriculture on soil function in arable farming systems in Europe. By Bhim Bahadur Ghaley et al. Sustainability 10: 794. 2018.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/stl108dtuxa8g3d/Ghaley%20et%20al%20CA%20and%20Soil%20Functions%20in%20Europe.pdf?dl=0> *9. **Impact of Conservation Agriculture on Wheat Growth, Productivity and Nutrient Uptake in Maize–Wheat–Mungbean System. By Sonaka Ghosh et al. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 13(4):422-429. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/lnhqt5e11p9ab26/Ghosh%20CA%20on%20wheat%20growth%2018525057_13_IJBSM.pdf?dl=0> *10. **Characterization of Soil Pores Through X-Ray Computed Microtomography and Carbon Mineralization Under Contrasting Tillage and Land Configurations in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. By Tridiv Ghosh et al. **Front. Environ. Sci. 1**0: 898249. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsr0hf4e0ma9doe/Ghosh%20et%20al%20fenvs-10-898249.pdf?dl=0> *11. **A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Conservative Agriculture Practice Adoption: Role of Farmer Orientations and Attitude. By N. Hayat et al. Front. Psychol. 13:876912. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d4z5g2loglogkn/Hayat%20et%20al%20A_Fuzzy-Set_Analysis_of_Conservative_Agriculture_Pakistan.pdf?dl=0> *12. **Effect of Conservation Agriculture practices on soil quality, productivity, and profitability of peanut-based system of Saurashtra, India. By Ram A. Jat et al. Agronomy Journal. 2021;1–16. 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypei4ivq7366bg1/JatetalAgroJ.2021.pdf?dl=0> *13. **A meta-analysis of economic and environmental benefits of Conservation Agriculture in South Asia. By T.M. Kiran Kumara et al. Journal of Environmental Management 269, 110773. 2020.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/01hbc4mjwz7ijml/Kiran%20Kumara%20et%20al%202020.pdf?dl=0> *14. **Conservation Agriculture: A tool for agricultural sustainability and climate change adaptation– a review. By Santosh Kumar Lenka et al. Indian Journal of Natural Sciences 13 (72). 2022.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/2d0dsgzlc7nw6r1/Sahoo%20et%20al%20CA%20a%20tool%20for%20CC%20and%20SA.pdf?dl=0> *15. **Weed management in wheat-mungbean-rice cropping pattern under Conservation Agriculture in drought-prone areas. By L. Hossain et al. Bangladesh J. Weed Sci. 7(1&2): 39-49. 2021.* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/fyd8adi5tj453dm/Weed%20management%20in%20mung-rice-wheat%20cropping.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> --------- To subscribe to the CA-CoP-L list, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] leaving the subject line blank and placing only the one-line message: ‘*SUBSCRIBE CA-CoP-L Name Surname*’ in the message part without any further text such as an address, etc. To unsubscribe from the CA-CoP-L list, send an e-mail message to [log in to unmask] leaving the subject line blank and placing only the one-line message: '*SIGNOFF CA-CoP-L*' in the message part without any further text such as a name, address, etc. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);