Volume 2 reviews ways of optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits. The first group of chapters cover research on optimising soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, as well as weed, insect pest and disease management. The second part of the book reviews ways of optimising the environmental and social benefits of adopting CA practices. Chapters discuss carbon and biodiversity management, the ways CA can promote ecosystem services as well as the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to monitor and improve CA. There are also chapters on improving the economic and broader social benefits of CA for farming communities. With its distinguished editor and team of expert contributors, this will be a standard reference on improving Conservation Agriculture practice. The book is accompanied by a companion volume on the key components which define CA.