Scaling-up Conservation Agriculture in Africa
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a combination of tested scientific technologies and/ or principles in agricultural production. The practice of CA in Africa is now maturing with increasing demand for more sustainable agricultural practices and better natural resources management and conservation. Conservation Agriculture, as a concept for natural resource-saving, strives to achieve acceptable profits with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environmen t. It appears to be a promising way of attaining sustainable agricultural production. In practice, CA relies on simultaneous application of three basic principles: 1) Minimum soil disturbance or if possible, no tillage; 2) Permanent soil cover; and 3) Crop rotations or/and associations.