Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF
for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
Regional CA websites:
URL: http://www.act-africa.org/
URL: https://ecaf.org/
URL: http://www.caa-ap.org/
URL: http://caapas.org/
Dear WASWAC members,
Attached please find the Hot News for issue 06 of 2022.
(1) Increased use of trees in agriculture can pave the way toward a transformation of the global food system.
(2) China's efforts in afforestation and nature conservation have substantially increased carbon storage, mitigating climate change in the first two decades of this century.
(3) Europe and many other parts of the world are currently grappling with extreme drought—and that could be bad news for efforts to curb climate change, concludes a new global study of how shrubs and grasses respond to parched conditions.
(4) A study develop in the Upper Mississippi River Basin suggested that future climate change can significantly intensify soil erosion and increase sediment deposition.
(5) Ugandan soils are increasingly losing fertility.
(6) Topsoil data for 18,984 samples from LUCAS 2018 are available as a CSV file.
(7) Two JRC technical reports released including EU Soil Observatory 2021 & LUCAS 2018 Soil Module.
You can also view it here
http://www.waswac.org.cn/waswac/rootfiles/2022/09/14/1661095789893585-1661095789922013.pdf
Welcome your suggestions and comments.
All the best,
Dr. Pengfei DU
The Secretariat of WASWAC
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