SLM Database

Hedgerows are vegetative strips of perennial grasses, shrubs or legumes - such as alfalfa - located along contours across a slope. These vegetative strips form a barrier to halt soil erosion and improve soil fertility. Hedgerows of alfalfa also provide quality animal fodder for a period of 5-10 years.

• Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
• 10/27/2016 9:36 p.m.

Small check dams made of stone, together with planting of trees, slow water flow and reduce further erosion in a gully, leading to its restoration.

• Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
• 08/13/2016 2:53 p.m.

Reshaping unproductive land into a series of levelled, gently-sloping platforms creates conditions suitable for cultivation and prevents accelerated erosion.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 04/19/2016 5:34 p.m.

Terraced orchard with alfalfa cultivation for fruit and fodder production and soil and water conservation.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 05/16/2014 1:14 p.m.

Trenches with soil bunds constructed in a tied manner along contour lines to trap surface runoff and sediments from degraded uplands

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 06/26/2011 12:15 p.m.

Earthen trenches with soil bunds built along contours in staggered design

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 02/08/2016 8:20 a.m.

Contour stone walls constructed on moderate to steep slopes to retain water and sediments and trap snow.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 02/16/2016 6:59 a.m.

Contour trench bund applied on contour lines of moderate slope to trap run-off to improve infiltration and reduce flash floods.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 04/12/2016 8:12 a.m.

Terraces are established on mountain slopes used mainly for cropping wheat, with the purpose of soil protection from erosion, preserving runoff, sediments and nutrients on-site. Improved seeds and fertilizer are applied on the terraces for increasing crop yield, but also vegetation cover and biomass production, and thus prevent further land …

• Compiler: Roziya Kirgizbekova
• 09/27/2016 4:45 p.m.

The inclusive, flood-resilient cluster village provides safe housing, food security and income generation for multiple families, including persons with disabilities, in a highly flood prone area of Gaibandha District in northern Bangladesh. The land was raised above flood level and is protected by deep rooted fruit trees to prevent soil …

• Compiler: Subir Saha
• 03/23/2017 12:48 p.m.