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FAO'S role in promoting conservation agriculture
Benites, JR; Ashburner, JE
通讯作者Benites, JR
会议名称1st World Congress on Conservation Agriculture
会议日期OCT 01-05, 2001
会议地点MADRID, SPAIN
英文摘要

Serious problems of land degradation, falling soil fertility, rapidly declining production levels and desertification are occurring in large parts of Latin America, Asia, Eurasia and Africa, a main cause being the plough-based or hoe-based agricultural practices. These inappropriate land management practices cause the soil to become more dense and compacted, the organic matter content to be reduced and water runoff and soil erosion to increase. They also lead to the effects of droughts becoming more severe and the soils becoming less fertile and less responsive to fertiliser.


There is now a wealth of evidence from examples throughout the world of these sustainable production systems and their dramatic effects that can be achieved when the basic principles of good farming practice are applied. The terminology being adopted for such systems by FAO and other organisations is much less thanConservation Agriculturemuch greater than (CA) and this implies conformity with all three of the following general principles:


no mechanical soil disturbance and direct seeding or planting


permanent soil cover, making particular use of crop residues and cover crops


judicious choice of crop rotations


Particularly renowned practices of conservation agriculture have been applied on a large scale on both large and small farms in Brazil and Paraguay. Other examples bear out the contention that minimal disturbance of the root zone, once this has developed, substantially contributes towards raising mean yields.


Globally, CA is now being practised on about 60 million ha, mostly in the Americas. Its use is growing exponentially on small and large farms in South America, encouraged by economic and environmental pressures. Over the last decade, FAO has been implementing field projects that place greater emphasis on helping farmers to improve their care of the land through practices of CA rather than through efforts solely to combat erosion. Its CA work initially concentrated in Latin America but FAO is now also focusing on Africa, Asia and Eurasia.


FAO has now established an interdisciplinary Conservation Agriculture Working Group (CAWG) and has made a wealth of information available through its specialist conservation agriculture web-site. It is actively supporting several CA networks such as RELACO, ACT, SACAN and ECAN.


英文关键词development co-operation sustainable agriculture tillage conservation agriculture cover crops participatory planning network
来源出版物CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE: ENVIRONMENT, FARMERS EXPERIENCES, INNOVATIONS, SOCIO-ECONOMY, POLICY
出版年2003
页码139-153
ISBN1-4020-1106-7
出版者SPRINGER
类型Proceedings Paper
语种英语
国家Italy
收录类别CPCI-S ; CPCI-SSH
WOS记录号WOS:000182379600017
WOS类目Agricultural Economics & Policy ; Environmental Studies ; Soil Science
WOS研究方向Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型会议论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/294145
作者单位(1)FAO, Land & Water Dev Div, I-00100 Rome, Italy
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