Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE  

for sustainable agriculture, land use and ecosystem management

Alert No. 78 (11 November 2022)

 

1.    Carbon farming: Making Agriculture fit for 2030. STUDY Requested by the ENVI committee. European Parliament. 2021.

 

2.    A system analysis of carbon farming schemes in support of the wider implementation of carbon farming in Flanders (Belgium). Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek (ILVO). October 2022.

 

3.    Conservation Agriculture Technologies for Cropping Systems Sustainability and Food and Nutrition Security in Nepal. By Lal P. Amgain et al. In: Agriculture, Natural Resources and Food Security, Sustainable Development Goals Series, Chapter 12. Springer Nature, Switzerland. 2022.

 

4.    The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. Leveraging automation in agriculture for transforming agrifood systems. Rome, FAO.

 

5.    Cropping system diversity and tillage intensity affects wheat productivity in Texas Perejitei E. Bekewe et al. Agronomy Journal September 2022: 1-17.

 

6.    Crop Yields under Climate Variability and No-Tillage System in Dry Areas of Morocco Rachid Moussadek et al. Ecological Engineering & Environmental Technology 2023, 24(1), 221–232.

 

7.    Taking Agroecology to Scale: Learning from the experiences of Natural Farming in India. Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Programme (APCNF) and The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).

 

8.    Improving Water Productivity in Conservation Agriculture. By Girija Prasad Patnaik et al. Advances in Agronomy 17: 1-21. 2022.

 

9.    An overview of climate change adaptation and mitigation research in Africa. By Yvette Baninla et al. Front. Clim. 4:976427. 2022.

 

10. A Comparison of the Differences in Soil Structure under Long-Term Conservation Agriculture Relative to a Secondary Forest. By Luiz F. Pires et al. Agriculture, 12, 1783. 2022.

 

11. Bridging the Yield Gaps of Major Cereals through Agronomic Interventions in Nepal. By Tika Bahadur Karki et al. Agronomy Journal of Nepal. 6(1):103-118. 2022.

 

12. Soil and Water Conservation in Africa: State of Play and Potential Role in Tackling Soil Degradation and Building Soil Health in Agricultural Lands. By Massamba Diop et al. Sustainability, 14, 13425. 2022.

 

13. The ongoing search for sustainable agriculture. By Theodor Friedrich. J. Plant. Sci. Phytopathol., 6: 133-134 (2022).

 

14. Capacity development for scaling Conservation Agriculture in smallholder farming systems in Latin America, South Asia, and Southern Africa: exposing the hidden levels. By Lennart Woltering et al. Knowledge Management for Development Journal. Online first. 22pp (2022).

 

15. Long-term tillage, residue management and crop rotation impacts on N2O and CH4 emissions from two contrasting soils in sub-humid Zimbabwe. By Armwell Shumba et al. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 341,108207 (2023).

 

16. Conservation Agriculture practices lead to diverse weed communities and higher maize grain yield in Southern Africa. Blessing Mhlanga et al. Field Crops Research, 289, 108724 (2022).

 

17. Overview of Organic Cover Crop-Based No-Tillage Technique in Europe: Farmers’ Practices and Research Challenges. By Laura Vincent-Caboud et al. Agriculture, 7, 42 (2017).

 

18. Tillage exacerbates the vulnerability of cereal crops to drought. By John N. Quinton et al. Nature Food , 3: 472–479 (2022).

 

19. Mechanical Intervention in Compacted No-Till Soil in Southern Brazil: Soil Physical Quality and Maize Yield. By Regiane Kazmierczak Becker et al. Agronomy, 12, 2281 (2022).

 

20. Conservation Agriculture: Analysis and prioritization of socio-ecological factors operating at farm levels in Ohio, USA. By Riti Chatterjee et al. Environmental Science and Policy, 138: 1–10 (2022).

 

21. Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification Global Options and Opportunities. By Amir Kassam et al. In: Conservation Agriculture: Global Scenario and Status in India. A.R.Sharma (ed). Chapter 1. Taylor & Francis.

 

Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

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

 

      Regional CA websites:

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

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

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

      URL: http://caapas.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 in the article: Successful Experiences and Lessons from Conservation Agriculture Worldwide. By Amir Kassam, Theodor Friedrich and Rolf Derpsch. Agronomy 12, 769. 2022.

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