SLM Database

Locally referred to as ‘radical terracing’, the method involves earth moving operations that create reverse-slope bench terraces which have properly shaped risers stabilized with grass or trees on embankment to avoid collapse.

• Compiler: Desire Kagabo
• 12/20/2012 6:45 p.m.

Une technologie permettant de retenir les eaux de ruissellement et de reduire la salinité des terres.

• Compiler: Julie Zähringer
• 12/16/2010 1:26 p.m.

Cette technologie combine des structures physiques et des pratiques végétales afin de ralentir la vitesse des écoulements (en amont) et renforcer l'impact des gabions (en aval) dans un système de bassin versant.

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 03/15/2011 1:24 p.m.

Cette technologie consiste en une structure physique permettant le traitement (remplissage) des ravines dans un système de bassin versant, renforcé par l'effet des cordons pierreux en amont.

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 03/17/2011 3:39 p.m.

La technologie consiste à mettre en place une retenue d'eau pour limiter la perte de couche arable par ruissellement et pour favoriser la recharge de la nappe phréatique.

• Compiler: Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye
• 04/14/2011 5:21 p.m.

Conservation measures for eroded cropland. The technology contains level ditches of various lengths, which are digged along a contour.

• Compiler: Zuzana Studvova
• 04/22/2015 10:37 a.m.

Silt fences together with brush packing were introduced to reduce sediment transport and restoration of gully erosion in the Potlake nature reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 02/16/2022 7:15 a.m.

Sediment retention fibre rolls (SRFR) and erosion blankets were deployed to stabilise steep slopes after vegetation cover was destroyed by fire, near the town of Knysna in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 10/15/2021 11:57 a.m.

The rehabilitation of active gully erosion by re-sloping the banks of the gully in an effort to manage the energy of the water entering the system. Bare soil is protected from erosion by covering it with erosion blankets, brush packing and the establishment of silt fences.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 01/22/2018 2:16 p.m.

Stone walls built on sloping fields to create terraces for cultivation and conservation: both ancient and contemporary.

• Compiler: William Critchley
• 01/02/2011 10:18 a.m.