SLM Database

Buffer strips and hedges comprise natural vegetation of grass, bushes or trees. They are sited at the edges of fields, roads and surface water bodies. Their main function is to provide a natural buffer to control nutrient and sediment transport from agricultural fields by promoting water infiltration and slowing runoff, …

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:13 p.m.

Afforestation is planting trees on previously non-forested land. Trees hold the soil and reduce runoff, and thus prevent erosion of the most fertile layers. It is an effective way to rehabilitate degraded lands, being a nature-based solution which addresses flood and soil erosion impacts.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 06/22/2021 11:33 a.m.

The technology is supposed to increase afforestation with native species within the area by supporting natural seed dispersal

• Compiler: Thorunn Petursdottir
• 06/01/2015 9:55 p.m.

Rangeland restoration - Spreading small portions of inorganic fertilizer and seeds on degraded rangelands

• Compiler: Thorunn Petursdottir
• 05/08/2015 6:52 p.m.

Applying organic residues to denuded ares

• Compiler: Thorunn Petursdottir
• 06/02/2015 12:35 a.m.

The nootka lupine is sown in sandy and gravelly areas to increase the vegetation cover and fertilize the soil.

• Compiler: Jan Reichert
• 04/01/2020 5:10 p.m.

Lyme grass is is sown by machines for revegetation in sandy areas to increase the vegetation cover, to capture and stabilise the moving sand. The extensive root system allows the plant to grow in sandy underground and thus protects the soil from extensive wind erosion.

• Compiler: Jan Reichert
• 04/02/2020 4:07 p.m.

Under the leadership of the Pastoralist Women Land Management Committee at village level, 100 acers of village wasteland were transformed into a rich pastures to be used by village livestock herds and, in this way providing food and livelihood security to local communities and restoring biodiversity within native grasses and …

• Compiler: Bhavana Rabari
• 11/24/2024 1:52 p.m.

Transforming a monocrop coconut farm into a resilient food forest can sustainably enhance soil health, biodiversity and productivity while reducing labour and external input requirements. This demonstrates the potential to increase yields and provide long-term economic and ecological stability for farmers.

• Compiler: Praveena Sridhar
• 10/30/2024 11:31 a.m.

Community-based soil rehabilitation by eradicating the invasive plant Lantana Camara using the 'cut rootstock' method (refer to WOCAT technology 6660) is an effective, cost-efficient, and sustainable approach to restoring grasslands on common lands in the Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh. The three-tier institutional structure used in this eradication process involved …

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 03/15/2023 6:11 p.m.