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"With comprehensive global coverage, this remarkable compilation will stand as a milestone on the road to transforming agriculture, illustrating how innovative farmers around the world are adapting their practices to ditch the plow, cover up, and grow diversity." David R. Montgomery, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilisations and Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
"This... is a compendium of much of what we have learnt across the world about CA. Its authors have all been deeply and enthusiastically involved in one way or another in the remarkable evolution and spread
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"With comprehensive global coverage, this remarkable compilation will stand as a milestone on the road to transforming agriculture, illustrating how innovative farmers around the world are adapting their practices to ditch the plow, cover up, and grow diversity." David R. Montgomery, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilisations and Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

"This... is a compendium of much of what we have learnt across the world about CA. Its authors have all been deeply and enthusiastically involved in one way or another in the remarkable evolution and spread of Conservation Agriculture in recent decades. It will serve as an immensely valuable source of reference - and inspiration - for all those who are committed to putting the world's food systems on a truly sustainable footing." (from the Foreword of Volumes 1-3 by Qu Dongyu, Director General, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome)

"Dr Kassam and all the contributors to the book as well as the publisher Burleigh Dodds deserve to be congratulated for their timely and much needed effort in bringing together the best of scientific and empirical knowledge and experience of CA systems and their benefits from around the world for practical application to help make sustainable agriculture real."(Robert Brinkman, former Director of Land and Water Division - FAO; review of Volumes 1-2 published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies)

With growing scientific concern around the limitations of tillage-based agriculture, coupled with the sector's need to contribute to being more sustainable, the development and adoption of alternative farming techniques has never been more important. Conservation Agriculture (CA) is emerging as a key alternative. The foundations of CA are built upon the use of no-till techniques and the use of rotations and cover crops to optimise different aspects of soil and crop health and resilience.

Building on Volumes 1 (Systems and Science) and 2 (Practice and Benefits), Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 3: Adoption and Spread provides an authoritative review from an array of international experts on the adoption of CA principles in different regions around the world. The final volume in this collection reviews the effectiveness of CA in differing contexts (e.g. in drier conditions where water conservation is important or in areas with poor soil) and refers to the wealth of research and experiential evidence currently available.

Edited by Professor Amir Kassam, University of Reading, UK, Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 3: Adoption and Spread will be a standard reference for those interested in adopting CA principles, including crop scientists researching low-input and organic agriculture, soil scientists, national organisations responsible for improving agricultural practices and sustainability, as well as farmers.

Professor Amir 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 to rural development. Prof. Kassam is Chair of the International Conservation Agriculture Advisory Panel for Africa (ICAAP-Africa), Member of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) 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 the FAO and CGIAR and has worked with many national and international programmes on sustainable agricultural development. He has published widely on Conservation Agriculture.


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