SLM Database

Closing the degraded land to let it to regenerate by excluding human and animal interference ans speed up the regeneration process by applying some SWC activities and undertake enrichment plantation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 4:44 p.m.

Integrated Farm Land Conservation (IFLC) comprises of farm terrace (bund) construction, construction of drainage structures, bund stabilization and livestock exclosure,

• Compiler: Yismaw Wuletaw
• 10/25/2018 10:31 a.m.

Closed area management is an area within a watershed into which human and livestock access is limited, and the area is left for natural recovery of vegetation and soil. Management relates to activities by the community to ensure such protection and to support regeneration, such as constructing drainage and retention …

• Compiler: Melese Bililign
• 10/25/2018 10 a.m.

In a pilot project, degraded pastureland near the settlement of Kasristskali was regenerated by introducing a fencing, mowing and grazing regime that favours the growth of forage plants instead of weeds and, where necessary, reseeding forage plants.

• Compiler: Hanns Kirchmeir
• 12/18/2018 3:44 p.m.

Riparian buffer strips refer to the permanent greening of arable land alongside streams and other water bodies. By slowing down runoff water from the land, they help to protect water bodies from diffuse pollution. Riparian buffer strips have multiple other environmental benefits, but disadvantages also.

• Compiler: Felix Witing
• 05/03/2022 6:01 p.m.

Microbasins providing drinking water to many communities frequently suffer from deforestation and are used as grazing areas, for coffee production areas or for other types of crops. As a whole, communities choose to protect microbasins and ensure reforestation resorting to legal protection, thus ensuring the quantity and quality of their …

• Compiler: Helen Gambon
• 11/25/2016 5:26 p.m.

A series of vegetative, structural and management technologies is used reduce the exposure and vulnerability of water infrastructure to threats. These include protecting water sources and water tanks, the stabilization of their surroundings, the anchoring of piping and, whenever necessary, repairing the water tank.

• Compiler: Helen Gambon
• 11/25/2016 3:29 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.

Regeneration of degraded hill side using structural, vegetative & managerial measures.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 8:11 p.m.

Catchment treatment of degraded forest land including social fencing, infiltration trenches and enrichment planting with trees and grasses for production and dam protection.

• Compiler: Chetan Kumar
• 06/03/2011 4:26 p.m.