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Conservation agriculture

Agronomic management that combines minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover, and crop diversification to conserve soil moisture and organic matter and sustain yields under variable rainfall and drought.

Definition source: FAO Conservation Agriculture

Synonyms

CA, conservation farming

Broader

Agronomic management

Narrower

none

Relations

addresses Drought
produces Soil function
applies-to Cereal
sequesters Carbon sink
produces Soil organic carbon
applies-to Crop system

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Intervention reduces emissions of a source or gas, OR sequesters carbon, OR produces a mitigation outcome; NOT mitigation when done for productivity, market, or development reasons only, with no emissions link and no emissions-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_023 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_023
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_023)