SLM Database

Stone faced terraces are commonly constructed on cultivated lands. These are structural measural measures placed along the contour to control soil erosion and trap runoff.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 06/02/2011 1:52 nm.

Enclosing and protecting an area of degraded land from human use and animal interference, to permit natural rehabilitation, enhanced by additional vegetative and structural conservation measures.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/29/2011 8:49 nm.

Area closure on degraded lands is a land management practice used to rehabilitate and conserve the natural resource bases, and enhance its natural regeneration and restoring capacity and productive functions by excluding animal and human interferences through community consultation and collective actions.

• Compiler: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/09/2014 10:12 vm.

stone terrace more or less along the contour, combined with artificial waterways and traditional ditches to drain excess water, and heightened field borders

• Compiler: Eva Ludi
• 02/13/2011 2:09 nm.

Un talus en pierres selon les courbes du niveau en nivelant progressivement la terre entre deux niveaux afin de contrôler l'érosion du sol.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 10/19/2010 6:12 nm.

Stone bund is an enbankment of stone constructed acrros the slope following the contour.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 10:12 nm.

Earh-checks are constructed of earth embankment put across in a deep gully in such a way to trap sediment and store water passing by it.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:21 nm.

It is a mechanical conservation measure where a basin and a ridge are formed for planting chat along a contour

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 1:49 nm.

Stone faced soil bund is an embankemt constructed along the contour by the use of stone and soil as a construction material.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 12:16 nm.

graded ditch out of soil and stones to protect the fields below from water runoff

• Compiler: Sabina Erny
• 05/29/2011 11:16 nm.