SLM Database

Stone wall check dams are built across a gully to collect alluvial soil and hinder further gully erosion.

• Compiler: Simon Bach
• 10/19/2011 4:57 p.m.

Stone faced embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 12:27 p.m.

It is constructed along the contour to minimize soil erosion and prevent runoff damage from down stream fields.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:49 a.m.

Desho grass strip is a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for animals.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 4:20 p.m.

It is a stone wall built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop production.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 1:25 p.m.

Vegetated graded soil bund is a soil conservation practice meant for cultivated lands and constructed by excavating graded channel on upper side and develop embankment on lower side which is planted with grass or shrub species in order to control soil erosion and drain excess runoff implemented through community mobilization.

• Compiler: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/12/2014 1:28 p.m.

Stone walls placed downslope in an inclined manner having embankment of soil on upstream along the contour line having tieridge.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/20/2011 4:51 p.m.

it is an embankment of soil constructed along the contour on crop lands

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 6:27 p.m.

These consist of stone embankments built in the shape of a semi circle with the tips of the bund on the contour and are arranged in staggered orientation in rows so that overflow from one row will run into the next downslope.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/11/2012 12:07 p.m.

Compacted soil bund constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on the up-slope side.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/10/2012 7:48 p.m.