SLM Database

Compacted soil bund constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on the up-slope side.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/10/2012 7:48 p.m.

It is a barrier of stone/wood/earth placed across a gully to control runoff and sediment passing through.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 3:02 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.

It is a stone wall embankment along the contour with land leveling in between two terrace walls to control erosion.

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

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

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

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 p.m.

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 p.m.

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 p.m.