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Conservation agriculture uses cover crops, crop rotation, andminimal tilling in the production of annual crops. It protectssoil, avoids emissions, and sequesters carbon.
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Plows are absent on farms practicing conservation agriculture,and for good reason. When farmers till their fields to destroyweeds and fold in fertilizer, water in the freshly turned soilevaporates. Soil itself can be blown or washed away and carbon heldwithin it released into the atmosphere. Tilling can make a fieldnutrient poor and less life-giving.
Conservation agriculture was developed in Brazil and Argentinain the 1970s, and adheres to three core principles:
- Minimize soil disturbance: absent tilling, farmersseed directly into the soil.
- Maintain soil cover: farmers leave crop residues afterharvesting or grow cover crops.
- Manage crop rotation: farmers change what is grown andwhere.
The Latin root of conserve means “to keep together.â€Conservation agriculture abides by these principles to keep thesoil together as a living ecosystem that enables food productionand helps redress climate change.
Conservation agriculture sequesters a relatively small amount ofcarbon—an average of half a ton per acre. But given the prevalenceof annual cropping around the world, those tons add up. Becauseconservation agriculture makes land more resilient toclimate-related events such as long droughts and heavy downpours,it is doubly valuable in a warming world.
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