SLM Database

Afforestation is one of the key technologies to address the fragility of ecosystems: it provides better protection against erosion and makes better use of rainfall in order to maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 08/05/2011 11:45 a.m.

Reforestación activa y pasiva gracias a la plantación de especies arbóreas y a la exclusión de pastoreo en el area. Esta tecnología se diseña e implementa con el objetivo de proteger las zonas de recarga del acuífero del Municipio de Morroa, Sucre, Colombia.

• Compiler: Luisa F. Vega
• 09/26/2018 5:17 a.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.

There are opportunities for robust forest management strategies in Germany to enhance land-based climate change mitigation. Through targeted measures, forest management can contribute to the continuous uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere by trees, and to the increase of carbon stocks in living and dead biomass, as well as in …

• Compiler: Anke Benndorf
• 04/23/2024 9:45 p.m.

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) comprises a set of practices used by farmers to encourage the growth of native trees on agricultural land by systematically allowing regeneration and managing trees and shrubs from tree stumps, roots and seeds.

• Compiler: Joshua Adombire
• 12/13/2022 10:27 p.m.

Graze land forestation with Ceratonia siliqua (carob trees)

• Compiler: Ioannis Daliakopoulos
• 03/12/2014 4:23 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.

Vegetative riparian buffers are strips of trees, bushes and grass alongside surface water bodies such as streams or ponds. Their main function is to provide a natural buffer strip to filter out nutrient and sediment transported from agricultural fields and prevent it reaching the water bodies - as well as …

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:13 p.m.

Accumulating coarse woody debris in stream beds reduces flow velocity and levels of flood peaks. As a consequence the speed and energy of water flow is reduced, allowing greater deposition of sediments. In addition the technology has ecological advantages.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:10 p.m.