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Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture
Basch, G.; González-Sánchez, E. J.; Kassam, A.; Román-Vázquez, J.; Moreno-Blanco, E.Under the banner: The Future of Farming – Profitable and Sustainable Farming with Conservation Agriculture, the 8WCCA highlighted the global contribution of Conservation Agriculture towards achieving these outcomes. It also explored how CA land use can help to address humankind’s major global challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and food security while safeguarding the livelihoods of small an...
Conservation Agriculture in the agri-environmental European context
González-Sánchez, E.J.; Basch, G.; Roman-Vazquez, J.; Moreno-Blanco, E.; Repullo-Ruiberriz de Torres, M.A.; Friedrich, T.More and more farmers are realizing that they need a better alternative to tillage agriculture in Europe. Those farmers who have discovered CA as an alternative and are practising it successfully are inspired by it. Every CA farmer has an exciting story to tell about the discovery, learning by doing, on-farm innovations and most importantly, becoming connected again to the land as an effective steward for the b...
Challenges and approaches to mainstream Conservation Agriculture in Africa and ...
Basch, G.; González-Sánchez, E.J.Over the past few decades the concept of Conservation Agriculture (CA) has spread globally, and almost exponentially, with an adoption rate of around 10 Mha per year in the past few years. This uptake has, however, been experienced rather unequally throughout the different regions. Whereas in the Americas and Australia the share of cropland under CA is considerable, in Africa and Europe both the area under CA a...
Promising Agricultural Management Practices and Soil Threats in Europe and China
Barão, L.; Alaoui, A.; Ferreira, C.; Basch, G.; Schwilch, G.; Geissen, V.; Wang, F.Advising farmers on the best agricultural management practices (AMP) to be adopted in order to sustain agricultural productivity while improving soil quality is mandatory to assure future food production. Some promising AMPs have been suggested over the time to prevent soil degradation. These practices have been randomly adopted by farmers but which ones are mostly used by farmers and where they have been appli...
. Climate change adaptability and mitigation with Conservation Agriculture
González-Sánchez, E.J.; Veroz-Gonzalez, O.; Moreno-Garcia, M.; Gomez-Ariza, M.R.; Ordoñez-Fernandez, R.; Trivino-Tarradas, P.; Kassam, K.The status quo of agriculture based on soil tillage is unacceptable from a climate point of view. To reverse agriculture’s field performance from that of a net GHG emitter to a GHG mitigator requires a new paradigm. CA is a holistic agricultural system that is able to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The three interlinked principles of CA enable the system to deliver many benefits in terms of carbon seques...
Weed management practices and benefits in CA systems
Basch, G.; Teixeira, F.; Duiker, S.Since the birth of agriculture, the control of undesired vegetation has been managed through one form or other of mechanical soil movement (tillage). In CA systems, the minimization or even absence of soil disturbance demands alternative ways to keep weed populations within acceptable limits. This chapter elaborates on the different approaches that are used to manage weed populations in agricultural production ...
Soil management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems
Pisante, M.; Galieni, A.; Basch, G.; Friedrich, T.; Stagnari, F.Nowadays it is well accepted and emonstrated, mostly in the pioneercountries, that CA adoption delivers several important environmental benefits; furthermore, due to the preservation of the soil fertility, crop yields are well sustained. However, such results derive from the correct and concomitant application of all three CA principles and despite the occurring of some critical aspects, for example weed manage...
Mobilizing Greater Crop and Land Potentials with Conservation Agriculture
Kassam, A.; Basch, G.; Friedrich, T.; González, E.; Trivino, P.; Holgado-Cabrera, A.; Mkomwa, S.; Kassam, L.The engine that supplies food and agricultural products is the way we farm. The current dominant engine of conventional tillage farming based on the Green Revolution agriculture mind-set is faltering and needs to be replaced to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the future food and agricultural demands by consumers and society. This chapter elaborates on the alternate no-till Conservation Agricul...
Visual assessment of the impact of agricultural management practices on soil qu...
Alaoui, A.; Barão, L.; Ferreira, C.; Schwilch, G.; Basch, G.; García-Orenes, F.The intensification of agricultural practices to increase food and feed outputs is a pressing challenge causing deterioration of soil quality and soil functions. Such a challenge demands provision of empirical evidence to provide context-sensitive guidance on agricultural management practices (AMPs) that may enhance soil quality. The objectives of this study are to identify the most promising AMPs (and their co...
Improving farmers’ livelihoods through conservation agriculture: options for ch...
Ndah, H.T.; Probst, L.; Kaweesa, S.; Kuria, P.; Mkomwa, S.; Rodrigues, P.; Basch, G.; Uckert, G.; Sieber, S.; Knierim, A.; Zander, P.; Schuler, J.Across Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural practices for sustainable intensification need to be up-scaled from project interventions to institutional mainstreaming. However, several constraints, including a general lack of resources and knowledge, limited institutional support and challenging market conditions hamper this process. The objective of this study was to develop region-specific options to promote Conser...