SLM Database

Thistles invaded massively into village pasture land at 1800m elevation in the Caucasus. By cutting the thistles with a motor-cutter the cover of thistles have been reduced.

• Compiler: Hanns Kirchmeir
• 12/18/2018 3:27 p.m.

Graze land forestation with Ceratonia siliqua (carob trees)

• Compiler: Ioannis Daliakopoulos
• 03/12/2014 4:23 p.m.

This technology consists of (a) ploughing the soil, (b) sowing the plants usually vetch or oat or in combination in November and (c) grazing the growing plants during spring. The main purpose of this technology is to increase the produced palatable biomass in a grazing land in which the biomass …

• Compiler: Costas Kosmas
• 07/04/2017 9:50 a.m.

Permanent meadows or pastures are more effective in controlling land degradation than arable cropping. They are especially appropriate in hilly regions on sloping land where the risk of water erosion is high.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:08 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.

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.

Cutting of wild ferns for fodder production and to mitigate pasture degradation.

• Compiler: Velia De Paola
• 07/18/2014 4:32 p.m.

Controlled grazing in deciduous woods seasonally limited in summer when grass cover in rangeland suffers water stress.

• Compiler: Lorenzo Borselli
• 06/05/2011 3:28 p.m.

Creation of cultivated pastures for summer-autumn use with sowing of perennial drought-resistant forage crops (sainfoin under barley cover - for summer use, izen - for autumn use) in the conditions of the foothill zone of south-eastern Kazakhstan

• Compiler: Kulyash Iskandarova
• 05/15/2023 2:13 p.m.

Radical improvement of low-yield pastures by strip placement of perennial drought-resistant grasses in the conditions of the foothill-semi-desert zone of south-eastern Kazakhstan

• Compiler: Kulyash Iskandarova
• 11/17/2022 5:54 a.m.