Conservation Agriculture

Conservation Agriculture ( CA ), less commonly conservative agriculture , encompasses three principles of crop production :

• Conservative tillage
• permanent ground cover (through intercropping or mulching )
• Crop rotation economy

literature

• Duncan Knowlera & Ben Bradshaw (2007): Farmers' adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research. Food Policy 32 (1), pp. 25-48.
• Ken E. Gillera, Ernst Witterb, Marc Corbeels, Pablo Tittonell (2009): Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view . Field Crops Research 114 (1), pp. 23-34.

Web links

• Conservation Agriculture on the FAO website