Practice Brief: Climate-smart Agriculture - Conservation agriculture

Content Type: 
Curated Content
Author or Institution as Author: 
Meryl Richards
Co-authors: 

Tek Sapkota, Clare Stirling, Christian Thierfelder, Nele Verhulst, Theodor Friedrich, Josef Kienzle

Funding Partner: 
CGIAR
Date of publication: 
September, 2014
Edition or Version: 
1.00
Institution: 
CGIAR
Copyright/Licence: 
Unknown
Language: 
EN
Gender marker: 
Gender Marker 1
Youth marker: 
Youth Marker 1
Description/Abstract: 

Conservation agriculture is an approach to agricultural management based on three principles: Minimum soild disturbance, Retention of crop residues or otehr soil surface cover; Use of crop rotations

URL: 
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4066e.pdf
Other Partners: 

FAO, CGIAR, CCAFS, CIMMYT

Theme: 
Climate Smart Agriculture
Keywords: 
Climate Smart Agriculture; CSA, Conservation Agriculture; CA
Citation: 

Richards, M. et al. 2014. Practice Brief Climate-smart Agriculture: Conservation Agriculture; Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

Target audience: 
National Policy Makers
CCARDESA Category: 
Best Practice

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