Practice Brief: Climate-smart Agriculture - Conservation agriculture

Author or Institution as Author
Meryl Richards
Co-authors

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

Resource Type
Curated Content
Category
Best Practice
Date of Publication
Sep 01, 2014
Language
English
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

Institution
CGIAR
Citation

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

URL
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4066e.pdf
Copyright/Licence
Unknown

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