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The Electric Fencing System in Bhutan serves as a non-lethal approach to safeguarding crops from wild animals, aligning with the principles of Gross National Happiness (GNH). GNH emphasizes values such as compassion, non-killing, and harmonious coexistence with nature and its elements.

• Compiler: Nima Dolma Tamang
• 07/08/2023 3:15 vm.

Cane and bamboo plantations are managed by land users and indigenous communities to sustain these valuable raw materials for making handicraft items. Tsharzo (bamboo craft), is one of the main sources of income for land users. Tsharzo makes use of cane and bamboo to weave products such as backpacks, baskets …

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/17/2023 1:14 nm.

The lake conservation initiative at Tali was conceived with the vision of protecting the lake and transforming the surrounding area into a community eco-tourism hub. The initiative is a testament to how science and spirituality, and culture and the environment can coexist and benefit from one another.

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/17/2023 8:44 vm.

Vegetables are intercropped between fruit-bearing trees in orchards. This maximizes land utilization, increases agrobiodiversity, and optimizes agricultural productivity.

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/10/2023 7:40 nm.

Plastic mulching comprises thin plastic sheets laid out on raised soil surfaces around plants to help conserve soil moisture, prevent water and wind erosion, control weeds, and regulate soil temperature. It is used in agriculture to increase crop yields. However, there are environmental concerns about soil contamination and waste disposal.

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/19/2023 1:18 nm.

Biogas is a renewable fuel generated through the anaerobic digestion of organic matter like food or animal waste, typically within a biogas plant. The biogas plant is adapted to household conditions and animal waste production. While this technology benefits small-scale farmers, challenges include the cost of establishment and the need …

• Compiler: ONGPO LEPCHA
• 07/19/2023 2 nm.

Leaf litter collection is the practice of collecting leaf litter from a designated forest area called sokshing and using it as bedding material for cattle. It then forms a constituent of farmyard manure which is applied to farmland.

• Compiler: Karma Wangdi
• 07/05/2023 9:51 vm.

Water source protection involves protecting lakes, rivers, springs, or man-made reservoirs to avoid water pollution and damage by livestock and wild animals. In the past, the emphasis was on fencing and improving vegetation cover at the discharge point itself, but a recent focus is on groundwater recharge areas.

• Compiler: ONGPO LEPCHA
• 07/10/2023 1:58 nm.

En la zona se está implementando el uso de maquinaria pesada, lo que provoca la degradación del suelo en la producción de quinua. A partir de ello, se quiere utilizar los saberes ancestrales (uso de tecnología mixta, saberes locales e innovación tecnológica) como una alternativa para mitigar la degradación de …

• Compiler: Meliza González Cáceres
• 01/23/2015 2:18 nm.

Se trata de diques de piedras que se ubican en el lecho de los arroyos, acompañados por plantaciones alrededor de las construcciones.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/11/2010 2:55 nm.