Conservation Agriculture: Global Prospects and Challenges

by R. A. Jat, K. L. Sahrawat, Amir H. Kassam

Overview

The book covers the spread of conservation agriculture (CA) to regions including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe and emerging CA destinations in Asia and Africa. Topics covered include the various components of CA, and how their individual and combined implementation influence productivity, soil health and environmental quality under diverse edaphic and climatic conditions. The book will be useful to teachers, researchers, extensionists, farmers, and students interested in environmental quality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780642598
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	02/06/2014
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

R. A. Jat

K. L. Sahrawat

Amir Kassam is: (i) Moderator of the FAO-hosted Global Platform for Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (CA-CoP), (ii) Chairman of the International Conservation Agriculture Advisory Panel for Africa (ICAAP-Africa); (iii) Vice-Chairman of the Conservation Agriculture Association of the United Kingdom (CA-UK); (iv) a Member of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF); (v) Visiting Professor in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK, where he teaches Conservation Agriculture; (vi) Convener of the Land Husbandry Group of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA), UK, Member of the Strategic Steering Group of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), UNEP, and Board member of the Asian Center of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (ACISAI) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok.

Kassam is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK), and a member of several international advisory committees, boards and panels. He is cited in several "Who is Who" in the UK and the USA. He has published widely. In 2005, Kassam was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List for services to tropical agriculture and to rural development.

Table of Contents

Foreword - José Graziano da Silva
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
1. Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture: Global Status, Prospects and Challenges
2. Conservation Agriculture in the USA
3. Conservation Agriculture in Brazil
4. Conservation Agriculture on the Canadian Prairies
5. Conservation Agriculture in Australian Dry-land Cropping
6. Conservation Agriculture in Europe
7. Conservation Agriculture in South-East Asia
8. Conservation Agriculture in China
9. Conservation Agriculture in Central Asia
10. Conservation Agriculture in West Asia
11. Conservation Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa
12. Conservation Agriculture in North Africa
13. Conservation Agriculture in West and Central Africa
14. Conservation Agriculture in Southern Africa
15. Conservation Agriculture in Argentina
16. Summing up

Index