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NEWSLETTERS/BROCHURES/BULLETINS/MAGAZINES▲ Access http://www.congresoeuropeoac.eu/en and request your copy of Ecoagriculture PartnersNewsletter regularly.• ▲ PACA Newsletter Issue 12.pdf or access www.conserveagri.orgOperated by I.P. Abrol, Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture (CASA) abrolip@gmail.com and SanjeevVasudev, Society for Strategy Technology & Delivery for Development (SocietySTADD) svasudev@conserveagri.org▲ CA-CoP Alert 91. Scaling-up Conservation Agriculture in Africa (read the full document)2. Proceedings of the International Workshop, ACSAD, 7-9 May 2007, Syria (read the full document)3. Cooling the Earth: International Conference (www.gbpuat.ac.in)4. The Case for Improving Soil Health ( www.fao.org/ag/ca/doc/WORKSHOP-LR.pdf)5. Farming for the Future (PDF version of the manual)6. Conservation Agriculture Toolbox for Zimbabwe (read the full document)7. CAIR News (available as PDF copy)8. International Training Course on Conservation Agriculture (www.act-africa.org)CA-CoP Alert 101. WOCAT – World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies.2. LANDCON e-LIBRARY: Our Gift to the Earth (from WASWAC).3. “European Congress on Conservation Agriculture: Towards agroenvironmental, climate and energeticsustainability”, to be held in Madrid 4-7 October 2010.4. Updating CA Data base in AquaStat, FAO.5. Conservation Agriculture Website at Cornell6. Articles on No-Tillage by Tom Borland in the Farmer’s Weekly (Zambia), February-March 1980.7. European Society of Agronomy Congress, 29 August to 3 September 2010, Montpellier.For your copy of CA-CoP Alert to be sent to you regularly, write to Amir Kassam atamirkassam786@gmail.com, www.fao.org/ag/ca▲ SOIL Action Newsletter - European Soil Portal: http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu Volume 15, March2010 eusoils@jrc.ec.europa.euSoil pH in EuropeThe JRC created a quantitative map of estimated soil pH values across Europe from a compilation of 12,333 soilpH measurements from 11 different sources, and using a geo-statistical framework based on Regression-Kriging. The map can be downloaded as a graphical file or as data. Its spatial coverage is 25 Member States ofthe European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, Albania. The data are available as a raster (ESRI GRID), inthe ETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Co-ordinate System; Temporal coverage: 2009.http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/data/ph/Integration of the Soil Database of Turkey into European Soil DatabaseIn order to extend the Soil Geographical Database to the countries of Mediterranean Basin, the implementationof soil geographical database of Turkey at 1:1 million scale was done. In the current report, you will be informedabout the preparation of soil database of Turkey compatible with European database and how the Turkish soildata have been integrated the European Soil Database. A number of attributes have been transformed fromlocal/national soil datasets while some attributes have been obtained from auxiliary datasets using remotesensing and GIS Techniques. http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ESDB_Archive/eusoils_docs/other/EUR24295.pdfSCAPE: The way aheadCAPE project (Soil Conservation and Protection for Europe) has given scientists the opportunity to discuss soilconservation and protection strategies in an informal way with people who are either responsible for finding solu-16
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