Conservation Agriculture (CA) is defined as a production system in which crop, soil, nutrient, pest, water and energy management components and operations are based on a sustainable ecological foundation provided by three interlinked principles of: (1) minimum soil disturbance (no-till direct seeding); (2) maintenance of soil cover (mulch cover from crop residues and cover crops); and (3) diversification (rotations and/or associations) of crops, including cover crops. CA principles are applied through locally-formulated and locally-adapted practices to all agricultural production systems, including arable, horticulture, tree crops, plantations, agro-forestry, organic and crop livestock systems with manual, animal-drawn or mechanized farm power.