SLM Database

Wasundhara approach: implementation through Village Development Committee (VDC) -a subcommittee of Gram Panchayat; VDC -every section of the society is represented & women have 49% - 51% representation; village envisioning by villagers; wealth ranking for obtaining contribution in equitable manner.

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

Villagers identified the land for work and set up management systems. Then they contacted the Forest Department to get their help for the plan. The villagers were involved with physical work, such as fencing, pit digging, trench, boundary wall and plantation work. plantation of local species raised.|

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

Prosopis cineraria is a hardy,leguminous tree species of desert region.It is grown on farmers field for ages because of its multipurpose uses, soil fertility enhancing ability as well as symbiotic effect on associated crop yield. The stem density however varies from a few trees per hectare to 100 trees per …

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

High human and livestock population in the desert are leading to mismanagement of the sandy terrain causing reactivation and land degradation resulting of sand movement. This moving sand encroach productive agricultural fields, human habitation, canal, road and railway tracks. The most effective method was the control through a careful plantation …

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

SPWD has done a broad ecological characterization of the Jaisamand catchment area and identified the major ecological issues associated with each major livelihood system in the area. This along with the use of the Participatory resource mapping tool, formed the basis of optimisation of resources. |

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

Developing cost-effective and appropriate technology that complements community knowledge. Natural regeneration of available rootstock, enrichment plantation & seeding of native and endangered species, low cost measures undertaken to conserve soil, water & nutrients within the ecosystem|

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 ص

The failure of the rehabilitation practices mostly due to lack of people participation and attention of people benefit, mainly economic benefit. Therefore for the future success of rehabilitation need a people independency through Integrated Farming Agrosylvopasture with embung (small reservoir) and closed pipe irrigation. Agrosylvopasture "Pagar Tejo" system has the …

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• 08/04/2010 2:36 م

Carbon Sequestration in woody biomass and in soils is a cost-effective measure to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels.Also, surplus biomass could be used as a substitute for fossil fuels.Some woody biomassspecies can grow in these low rainfall areas with saline soils, although the build up of organic carbon in wood and …

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• 08/11/2012 3:14 م

Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) are an indigenous flower that grow in a plain in the Central Zagross Mountains (Chelgerd, Kuhrang). The plain is in the summer quarters of the Hamuleh Tribe of the Bakhtiari Confederation (Haft Lang branch) which covers an area covered of about 2,000ha. The community includes 500 …

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• 08/11/2012 3:14 م

Floodwater spreading for spate irrigation and the artificial recharge of groundwater (ARG) is an indigenous base knowledge that has been practiced for millennia in different parts of Iran. the main objective of this initiative in the Gareh Bygone Plain is,Breaking the interfacing, vicious circles of poverty-ignorance-desertification on the one and, …

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• 07/29/2010 5:19 م