Intensifying Crop Production with Conservation Agriculture

Introduction

• What is Conservation Agriculture
• Land degradation caused by traditional tillage
• The Paradigm of Tillage

Concepts for Conservation Agriculture

• The Potential of Conservation Tillage for Sustainable Agriculture
• Implications for changing the traditional tillage into conservation tillage
• Conservation Agriculture Agriculture for the 3rd Millennium
• Frontiers in Conservation Tillage and Advances in Conservation Practice

Principles and experiences with conservation agriculture: Cases from Latin America, Africa and Central Asia

• Soil Management for Small Farms- Experiences from the State of Santa Catarina/Brazil
• Conservation Tillage for Sustainable Agriculture, International Workshop(HARARE, ZIMBABWE, 22-27 June 1998) 
• Conservation Farming for Small Holders in Zambia
• Conservation Tillage Technologies in Africa
• Opportunities for Conservation Tillage with Animal Traction
• Conservation Tillage with Animal Traction
• Conservation Tillage:A Viable Option for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia: Proceedings of International Workshop, Shortandy-Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, September 19-24, 1999

Environmental Impact of Conservation Tillage

• Environment and Zero Tillage
• Sustainable Intensification

Economics of conservation agriculture

• Economics of No-till Compared to Traditional Cultivation Systems on Small Farms in Paraguay - Policy and Investment Implications

Networking for conservation agriculture

• Conservation Agriculture Technology Database
• Brazlian Small Farmers Machinery Manufacture
• Report of the First World Congress on CA

WEB SITES

1. Direct Planting Platform, Brazil
2. ACT(AFRICA)
3. Latin American Conservation Agriculture Network (RELACO)
4. RELACO-NEWS and EVENTS - RELACO (spanish-portuguese only)
5. ECAF
6. World Congress
7. CTIC - Conservation Technology Information Centre
8. Conservation Tillage in Europe
9. No-Till in Rice-Wheat: Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangic Plains (English only)
10. No-Till, Sustainable Agriculture in the New Millennium
11. No till systems in northern USA (English only)
12. Cirad, agroecology (English, French  under construction)
13. The UK Soil Management Initiative (English only)
14. Swiss No-till, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für bodenschonende Landwirtschaft (English and French)
15. No-till Farmer or http://www.no-tillfarmer.com (English only)
16. Land Management in Austrialia
17. WANTFA, (Western Australian No-till Farmers Association) (English only)
18. Animal Traction Network of Eastern & Southern Africa (English only)
19. The Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association (English only)
20. FEBRAPDP - Federação Brasileira de Plantio Direto na Palha (en inglés y portugués)
21. APDC - Cerrado Region No-till Farmers Association, Brazil
22. Revista Plantio Direto
23. Cooperativa dos Agricultores de Plantio Direto
24. Asociación Argentina de Productores en Siembra Directa
25. FAO - AGLL
26. FAO - AGSE

Further reading about tillage

• FAO bulletins
• EU-study
• No-Tillage Seeding
• Precious Earth
• Manual on Integrated Soil Management and Conservation practices
• Conservation Tillage for Sustainable Crop Production System