CIRAD ^Featured

Depuis plus de vingt cinq ans, le Cirad et ses partenaires développent des solutions alternatives aux systèmes de culture conventionnels dans les pays du sud car l'agriculture basée sur le labour butte à répondre aux principaux challenges en matière de conservation de l'eau et des sols, de protection de l'environnement, de sécurité alimentaire, de réduction des coûts, etc.

Conservation Agriculture - FAO ^Featured

Conservation agriculture (CA) aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and subsequently aimes at improved livelihoods of farmers through the application of the three CA principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations.

Betuco – Documents on Conservation Agriculture ^Featured

Agroecology ^Featured

Agroecology: a scientific discipline that uses ecological theory to study, design, manage and evaluate agricultural systems that are productive but also resource conserving. Agroecological research considers interactions of all important biophysical, technical and socioeconomic components of farming systems and regards these systems as the fundamental units of study, where mineral cycles, energy transformations, biological processes and socioeconomic relationships are analyzed as a whole in an interdisciplinary fashion. Agroecology is concerned with the maintenance of a productive agriculture that sustains yields and optimizes the use of local resources while minimizing the negative environmental and socio-economic impacts of modern technologies. In industrial countries, modern agriculture with its yield maximizing high-input technologies g ...
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Rolf Derpsch ^Featured

No- Tillage, Sustainable Agriculture in the New Millenium

European Conservation Agriculture Federation ^Featured

The European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) brings together fifteen national associations which promote among Europe's farmers the soil management "best practice" aspects of conservation agriculture. With member associations in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, ECAF represents the interests of the majority of the European Union's cropped farmland.

Federacão Brasileira de Plantio Direto na Palha ^Featured

Cedar Meadow Farm ^Featured

Steve Groff and his family have pioneered the "Permanent Cover Cropping System", which includes no-tillage, cover crops, and effective crop rotations as a way to increase profits, enhance soil and water quality, and reduce pesticides.

(WASWC) World Association of Soil and Water Conservatio... ^Featured

A world in which all soil and water resources are used in a productive, sustainable and ecologically sound manner. To promote worldwide the application of wise soil and water management practices that will improve and safeguard the quality of land and water resources so that they continue to meet the needs of agriculture, society and nature.

Southern Conservation Agricultural Systems Conference ^Featured

The primary mission of the SCASC is to provide a medium for exchanging information about conservation agricultural systems and related technology between and among researchers, extension personnel, NRCS personnel, crop consultants, agrochemical companies and farmers. The primary goal of most conservation agricultural systems research is to develop improved technology to increase yields and/or profitability of agricultural crops and livestock while maintaining or improving the quality of soil and water resources available for agricultural, domestic and recreational uses. The overall objective of the SCASC is to expand the conservation agricultural systems in the southern United States for the purpose of controlling erosion and reducing environmental degradation.

No-Till on the Plains ^Featured

No-till on the Plains Inc. is a non-profit educational organization providing information to farmers on adopting No-till and other sustainable production methods, and to further develop those techniques.  While adopting No-till and good agronomy (good biology) has the potential to greatly improve farmers' efficiency and profitability, many other benefits accrue to society, such as greatly reduced soil erosion of cropland, less sedimentation of rivers and lakes, better wildlife habitat in fields, and the sequestering of atmospheric carbon dioxide in soil organic matter.

Agriculture de Conservation ^Featured

Le portail des agricultures écologiquement intensives