SLM Database

Contour terrace protection with front bank and three ditches in orchard rehabilitation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/24/2010 3:18 p.m.

A protective and productive high-input agroforestry system comprising multi-purpose ditches with bunds, live barriers of grass, contour ridging, annual crops and fruit trees.

• Compiler: Mathias Gurtner
• 03/17/2011 10:30 a.m.

La tecnología pretende recuperar la fertilidad del suelo e impedir la erosión a través de una combinación de medidas estructurales (camellones en comtorno y zanjas de infiltración y de compost), vegetativas (barreras de pasto / árboles) y agronómicas (diversificación y intercalación de cultivos, aplicación de abono orgánico)

• Compiler: Mathias Gurtner
• 09/14/2010 10:07 a.m.

Dry-stone terraces built to create agricultural land, minimise soil erosion and retain soil moisture on steep mountain slopes.

• Compiler: Christos Zoumides
• 10/30/2015 11:59 p.m.

Tree plantations in combination with hillside terracing to protect upper catchment areas are a widespread technology in the Central and Northern Highland Zone of Eritrea.

• Compiler: Eyob Zeremariam
• 11/15/2010 10:47 a.m.

Water Spreading Weirs are designed to protect the degradation of agricultural fields and rangelands. They contribute to soil and water conservation and enhance the productive use of dry valleys for food crops and livestock fodder production via the harvest and spread of runoff water and fertile soils.

• Compiler: GERBA LETA
• 03/21/2023 6:02 p.m.

A double basin masonry check dam is a physical structure that helps to stop gully formation or further development of gullies in dry valleys. It rehabilitates small to a medium-sized deep gullies that are eating into the heart of adjacent land.

• Compiler: GERBA LETA
• 03/21/2023 6:10 p.m.

an allignment of stone along the contour line which stabilzes with grass species

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/02/2011 5:41 p.m.

Structure constructed by digging a shallow channel on the upper hill side and putting the excavated soil on the down side to build the embankment

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/03/2011 12:58 p.m.

an embankment of soil constructed along the contour to reduce runoff and maintain soil moisture.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/25/2011 10:11 a.m.