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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