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    Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification: Global Options and Opportunities
    (2022) Amir Kassam; Yashpal Singh Saharawat; I.P. Abrol
    Innovations such as Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems and the resulting ecological understanding of sustainable production are leading a paradigm change in the food and agriculture system globally. The resulting impact is the opening up of new and more profitable ways of managing agricultural lands and improving livelihoods, of investing in agricultural land for commercial purposes, and enhancing and being rewarded for ecosystem services. Agriculture is no longer the sector to employ the poor and the uneducated. It is a place where greater technical and managerial skills are going to be demanded in order to save the human race and the planet. Agriculture has become a calling for everyone, especially the youth, to reengage and double their efforts to achieve and sustain food security, address agricultural land degradation, achieve more from less, and respond to climate change. We must concentrate on promoting all aspects of CA for the benefit of the farmer, wherever he or she may be farming, however poor or rich, small or large, as well for the society and the planet. All disciplines and people have a role to play because the option and opportunity, which we all must seize, is at the level of a paradigm change – like moving from a flat Earth mindset to a round reaching mindset. All aspects of the food and agriculture systems must be realigned to the new paradigm over the coming decades across the world.
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    Conservation Agriculture in South Asia
    (2022-02) Yashpal Singh Saharawat ; Gill, M; Mahesh K. Gathala; Tika B. Karki; Wijeratne, D.B.T.; Samiullah, S.; Neelam Chaudhary; Md. Enamul Haque; Richard W. Bell; C.M. Parihar; Hari Sankar Nayak; Rajbir Singh; R. K. Malik; Upendra Singh; Raj Paroda; Amir Kassam
    South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human population with a lower environmental footprint, preserve natural resources and mitigate or adapt to the changing climatic scenarios. Conservation Agriculture offers a number of benefits such as arresting and reversing the resource degradation, decreasing cultivation costs, making agriculture more resource – use efficient, competitive and sustainable whilst increasing resilience to climatic variability and improving livelihood incomes in South Asia. The CA approach for managing agro ecosystems is of paramount significance in improving soil health, sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity. However, there is still a large knowledge gap in understanding of nutrient and water management in CA Systems