Amir Kassam

TL;DR: The authors in this article estimate that there are now some 106 million ha of arable and permanent crops grown without tillage in CA systems, corresponding to an annual rate of increase globally since 1990 of 5.3 million ha.

TL;DR: No-tillage farming offers a way of optimizing productivity and ecosystem services, offering a wide range of economic, environmental and social benefits to the producer and to the society as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the history of adoption of conservation agriculture and analyze reasons and actual regional trends for adoption to draw conclusions about future promotion of CA, and conclude that CA adoption has been intense in North and South America as well as in Australia and New Zealand, and more recently in Asia and Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the principles that underpin conservation agriculture (CA) ecologically and operationally, and the potential benefits that can be harnessed through CA systems in the dry Mediterranean climate.

TL;DR: The authors in this article presented an update of the adoption of conservation agriculture since 2008/09, showing the increased interest of farmers and national governments in this alternate production concept and method and showed the increased adoption has been intense mainly in North and South America as well as in Australia and Asia, and more recently in Europe and Africa where the awareness and support for CA is on the increase.