LINKS TO OUTSIDE RESOURCES

Articles & publications

1. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT). Zero-till and bed planting in South Asia: Ploughing less to save water and slow global warming. CIMMYT website.
2. CIRAD. Towards sustainable agriculture: Direct seeding on plant cover [also available in French & Portuguese]. CIRAD website.
3. Derpsch, Rolf. Frontiers in Conservation Tillage and Advances in Conservation Practices.1999. No-till, Sustainable Agriculture in the New Millennium.
4. Ekboir, Javier M. 2003. Research and technology policies in innovation systems: zero tillage in Brazil. Research Policy 32(4): 573-586.
5. Ekboir, J., K. Boa & A.A. Dankyi. 2002. Impact of No-Till Technologies in Ghana. CIMMYT website.
6. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2001. Conservation agriculture: Case studies in Latin America and Africa. FAO document repository.
7. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2001. The economics of Conservation Agriculture. FAO document repository. [Also available in French and Spanish].
8. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2001. Conservation Agriculture: Matching Production with Sustainability . FAO document repository.
9. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2001. FAO: Conventional ploughing erodes the soil- zero tillage is an environmentally-friendly alternative. FAO press release 01/59.
10. Garcia-Torrez, L., A. Martinez-Vilela, A. Holgado-Cabrera & Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez. 2001. Conservation agriculture, environmental and economic benefits. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) website.
11. Guedez, P-Y. 2001. Environmental aspects of Conservation Agriculture in Europe. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) website.
12. Hobbs, Peter R. & Raj K. Gupta. 2001. Resource-Conserving Technologies for Wheat in the Rice-Wheat System. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT) website.
13. Hobbs, Peter R., Raj Gupta, R.K.Malik and S.S. Dhillon. 2001. Conservation Agriculture for the rice-wheat systems of the IndoGangetic Plains of South Asia: A case study from India. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) website.
14. Hobbs, P.R., Y. Singh, G.S. Giri, J.G. Lauren & J.M. Duxbury. 2002. Direct-seeding and reduced-tillage options in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia. International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) website.
15. Piere, C., G. Evers, J. Landers, P. O'Connell & E. Terry. No-till Farming for Sustainable Rural Development. The World Bank website.
16. The Rice-Wheat Consortium (RWC). Zero tillage comes of age on the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The Rice-Wheat Consortium (RWC) for the Indo-Gangetic Plains website.
17. Upadhyay, Ritu & Dipesh Satapathy. Zero Tillage in Indo-Gangetic Plains: Eco-friendly and cost-efficient farming takes root. The Rice-Wheat Consortium (RWC) for the Indo-Gangetic Plains website.
18. Vaneph, Sandrine & Benites, José. 2001. First world congress on Conservation Agriculture: A Report. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) website.

Databases

• TropSCORE's Worldwide Soil Health Information Portal
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Portals and Databases:
  Agriculture Department Database
  Land and Water Development Division Information Portal
  World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)
  WOCAT SWC Technologies Database
  WOCAT SWC Technologies Database
  WOCAT SWC Approaches Database
  WOCAT SWC Images Database

Discussion groups

• Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics (MOIST) Sponsored Electronic Discussion Groups
  Mulch-L (English)
  Coberagri-L (Spanish)
  Evecs-L (French)
• No-till Farmer Bulletin Board (English)
• Pacific Northwest Direct Seed E-mail / Web Listserve (English)
• Soil and Water Conservation Technologies Electronic Mailing List (English)
• Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group (English)

Events:

• I World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Madrid, Spain (2001).
• II World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Iguassu Falls, PR, Brazil (2003).
  Download brochure (PDF file).
• III World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Nairobi, Kenya (2005).
• ATNESA International Workshop. Jinja, Uganda (2002).
• Northwest Direct Seed Cropping Systems. Spokane, WA, USA (1999).

Organizations & web pages (by geographic region)

AFRICA

• African Conservation Agriculture (ACT) Network
• Animal Traction Network of Eastern and Southern Africa
• Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA)
  

ASIA

• National Foundation for Development of Conservation Agriculture (Russia)
• Rice-Wheat Consortium (RWC) for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (India/ Pakistan)

AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND

• South Australian No-Till Farmers Association (SANTFA) (Australia)
• Western Australian No-Till Farmers Association (WANTFA) (Australia)

EUROPE

• Agriculture-de-conservation.com (France)
• Asociación Española de Agricultura de Conservación Suelos Vivos (AEAC.SV) (Spain)
• Associação Portuguesa de Mobilização de Conservação do Solo (APOSOLO) (Portugal)
• Associazione Italiana per la Gestione Agronomica e Conservativa del Suolo
  (A.I.G.A.Co.S.) (Italy)
• Association pour la Promotion d´une Agriculture Durable (APAD) (France)
• Belgian Association in Research Application on Conservation Agriculture (BARACA) (Belgium)
• Danish Conservation Agriculture Association (DKA) (Denmark)
• European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF)
• Gesellschaft für Konservierende Bodenbearbeitung (GKB) (Germany)
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für bodenschonende Landwirtschaft (Swiss No-Till) (Switzerland)
• Soil Management Initiative (SMI) (United Kingdom)

LATIN AMERICA

• Asociación Argentina de Productores en Siembra Directa (Argentina)
• Cooperativa dos Agricultores de Plantio Direto (Brazil)
• E-Campo Weekly Agriculture Report (Argentina)
• Federação Brasileira de Plantio Direto na Palha (FEBRAPDP) (Brazil)
• Latin American Conservation Network (RELACO)
• Plataforma Plantio Direto (Brazil)
• The Zero Tillage Farmers' Association for the Cerrado Region (APDC) (Brazil)

NORTH AMERICA

• No-till Farmer Magazine (United States)
• No-Till on the Plains (United States)
• Manitoba-North Dakota Zero-Tillage Farmers Association (United States)
• Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association (Canada)
• South Dakota No-till Association (United States)
• Southern Conservation Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture (SCTCSA) (United States)

WORLDWIDE

• CIRAD Agroecology Network
• Direct sowing Mulch-based systems and Conservation agriculture (DMC)
• FAO Working Group on Conservation Agriculture
• Food and Agriculture Organization Crop and Grassland Service (FAO-AGCP)
• Intensifying Crop Production with Conservation Agriculture
• No-till, Sustainable Agriculture in the New Millennium
• World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWC)

Materials and equipment

• Brazlian Small Farmers Machinery Manufacture
• Conservation Agriculture Technology
• Conservation Technology Information Center
• FAO Agricultural Engineering Branch (AGSE)

Presentations & images

• Conservation tillage photo library
• Changing Perspectives on Sustainable Soil Systems. Powerpoint presentation (Hobbs 2004).
• Photo library on Land Management Systems and Conservation Agriculture
• The Situation of Conservation Agriculture in Europe. Powerpoint presentation (Vilela 2003).
• The Situation of Conservation Agriculture in the World. Powerpoint presentation (Derpsch & Benites 2003).
• The zero tillage revolution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia: How did it happen? Powerpoint presentation (Harrington 2005).

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