Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2

Editor

Professor Kassam is Visiting Professor at the University of Reading (UK) and Moderator of the FAO-hosted Global Platform for Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (Global CA-CoP). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK) and has received an OBE from the British Government for services to tropical agriculture and rural development. Prof. Kassam is Chair of the International Conservation Agriculture Advisory Panel for Africa (ICAAP-Africa) and Vice-Chair of the Conservation Agriculture Association for the UK (CA-UK). He is former Chair of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), the FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance Europe Foundation and the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA). He has held senior positions at international organisations such as FAO and CGIAR and has published widely on Conservation Agriculture.

Description

This collection reviews ways of optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits. 

Chapters summarise research on optimising soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, as well as weed, insect pest and disease management. The book also reviews ways of optimising the environmental and social benefits of adopting CA practices. 

Chapters discuss carbon and biodiversity management, the ways CA can promote ecosystem services as well as the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to monitor and improve CA. There are also chapters on improving the economic and broader social benefits of CA for farming communities.

Key features

• Summarises current research on optimising CA practices at key stages in crop production
• Addresses major challenges facing CA in such areas as weed, insect pest and disease management
• Reviews the central issues of yield improvement, productivity and profitability

What others are saying...

"This is an important, timely and authoritative collection on the values of Conservation Agriculture worldwide. Great advances have been made in recent years over a range of approaches and systems to improve both the productivity of agricultural systems and their positive contributions to ecosystem services and natural capital. Conservation Agriculture has been taken up by millions of farmers, fitting methods to their particular circumstances to produce sustainable models of food production."
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK

Table of contents

1.Practice and benefits of Conservation Agriculture systems: Amir Kassam, University of Reading, UK; and Laila Kassam, Independent Researcher, UK; 
2.Crop and cropping systems management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Ahmad Nawaz, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan; Yashpal Singh Saharawat, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Lebanon; Timothy Reeves, The University of Melbourne, Australia; and Kadambot H. M. Siddique, The University of Western Australia, Australia; 
3.Soil management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Michele Pisante, University of Teramo, Italy; Angelica Galieni, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics and Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Italy; Gottlieb Basch, University of Évora, Portugal; Theodor Friedrich, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy; and Fabio Stagnari, University of Teramo, Italy; 
4.Weed management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Gottlieb Basch, University of Évora, Portugal and European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF), Belgium; Fernando Teixeira, University of Évora, Portugal; and Sjoerd W. Duiker, Penn State University, USA; 
5.Insect pest and disease management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems – A case of push-pull practice: Z. R. Khan, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya; A. W. Murage, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Kenya; and J. O. Pittchar and C. A. O. Midega, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya; 
6.Nutrient management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Stephane Boulakia, Florent Tivet and Olivier Husson, Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France; and Lucien Séguy, AgroécoRiz, France; 
7.Carbon management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: João Carlos de Moraes Sá, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil; Florent Tivet, Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France; Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University, USA; Ademir de Oliveira Ferreira, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Clever Briedis, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Brazil; Thiago Massao Inagaki, Technical University of Munich, Germany; and Daniel Potma Gonçalves and Jucimare Romaniw, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil; 
8.Biodiversity management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Scott Day, Fall Line Farms, USA; Ademir Calegari, Agricultural Research Institute (IAPAR), Brazil; Alessandra Santos, Marcus Cremonesi and Lilianne Maia, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil; and Marie L. C. Bartz, Universidade Positivo, Brazil ; 
9.Conservation Agriculture and climate change mitigation and adaptability benefits: Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez, Asociación Española Agricultura de Conservación Suelos Vivos, Spain; Manuel Moreno-Garcia and Rafaela Ordoñez-Fernandez, IFAPA, Spain; Jesus A. Gil-Ribes and Julio Roman-Vazquez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Antonio Holgado-Cabrera, European Conservation Agriculture Federation, Belgium; Paula Triviño-Tarradas, Antonio Miranda-Fuentes and Francisco Marquez-Garcia, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; and Rosa M. Carbonell-Bojollo, IFAPA, Spain; 
10.Benefits of Conservation Agriculture to farmers and society: Patrick C. Wall, Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Mexico; Christian L. Thierfelder, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Zimbabwe; Peter Hobbs, Cornell University, USA; Jon Hellin, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines; and Bram Govaerts, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico; 
11.Social benefits of Conservation Agriculture systems: Rafael Fuentes Llanillo, Tiago Santos Telles and Dimas Soares Junior, Instituto Agronomico do Paraná (IAPAR), Brazil; Sara Kaweesa, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria; and Anne-Marie B Mayer, Independent Nutrition and Agriculture Consultant, UK; 
12.Harnessing ecosystems services with Conservation Agriculture: Amir Kassam, University of Reading, UK; Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Tom Goddard, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Canada; Li Hongwen and He Jin, China Agriculture University, China; Ivo Mello, Instituto Rio Grandense do Arroz, Brazil; Saidi Mkomwa, African Conservation Tillage Network, Kenya; Francis Shaxson, Tropical Agriculture Association, UK; and Theodor Friedrich, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Bolivia; 
13.Rehabilitating degraded and abandoned agricultural lands with Conservation Agriculture systems: Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil; Claudio Hideo Martins da Costa, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; Otávio dos Anjos Leal, Catarinense Federal Institute, Brazil; and Luan Pierre Pott, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil;

Dimensions:

229x152mm  6x9"

Publication date:

Q4 2019

Length of book:

300 pages

ISBN-13: 9781786762689

Hardback