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"What Dr Samuel Johnson did for English, Professor Amir Kassam has
done for Conservation Agriculture (CA). He is eminently well
qualified and has enlisted more than a hundred battle-hardened
champions to contribute 26 chapters amounting to over a thousand
scholarly pages. The content is formidable. Volume one, Systems and
Science, embraces: the need for CA; global developments; soil
health and landscape management; the roles of minimum soil
disturbance, mulch and cover crops; crops and cropping systems,
vegetable systems, perennial systems; integration of cropping and
livestock; mechanization; certification; institutional and policy
support. Volume two, Practice and Benefits, includes management of
crops and cropping systems, soil, weeds, insect pests and disease,
nutrients, carbon, and biodiversity; climate change mitigation and
adaptation; benefits to farmers and society; ecosystem services;
and rehabilitation of degraded farmland...This book can change the
future."review by David Dent in International Journal of
Environmental Studies 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.
This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on
conservation tillage in agriculture. The first chapter reviews
types of tillage and soil disturbance and how different soil
management techniques affect the cropping cycle. The chapter also
discusses how soil disturbance can be minimised during key farming
operations. The second chapter describes the principles of
Conservation Agriculture (CA), looking primarily at soil
management. It also examines the key concepts of no-tillage
agriculture, as well as the environmental and economic benefits
these techniques offer. The third chapter discusses the role of
conservation tillage in organic farming, reviewing over 20 years of
practical, on-farm research. It outlines the main benefits
associated with conservation tillage, whilst also considering the
challenges that arise with its implementation and how these can be
addressed. The fourth chapter explores the emergence of
conservation tillage (CT) as an innovation to address stagnant
wheat yields in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia. The chapter
explores the benefits of CT for soil health and crop yields, and
highlights current obstacles facing region-wide adoption of CT. The
final chapter reviews the advantages of zero-till maize
cultivation, including reduced soil erosion and nutrient losses. It
also summarises best management practices to optimise zero-till
maize systems.
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