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Lantana Camara, an invasive species in India, negatively impacts biodiversity and agriculture. Biochar made from its biomass can help manage the species effectively. Traditionally farmers produce biochar in soil pit kilns. Another low-cost portable kiln unit of biochar preparation is a viable option for rainfed areas, designed to work on …

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 03/15/2023 6:11 p.m.

SELECTIVE CUTTING OF FOREST TREES TO PREVENT FIRES AND AVOID THE RISK OF DAMAGED TREES FALLING DOWN.

• Compiler: Velia De Paola
• 07/23/2014 11:04 a.m.

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a proven SLM Technology to restore degraded wasteland and improve depleted farmland. The farmer regu- lates and facilitates the re-growth of existing trees stumps, or self-sown seeds in the soil, and thus promotes soil fertility and through better ground cover, increases protection from runoff …

• Compiler: Thomas Kalytta
• 08/04/2016 10:40 a.m.

Trees are planted along the riparian zone to stabilize the riverbank and to prevent degradation. The wood can be used to establish a building or to generate income on the market.

• Compiler: Manuel Fischer
• 02/06/2013 11:59 a.m.

The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is about people and their relationships with land. The tool as applied secures tenure through the recognition of tenure diversity and social contexts. In the management of land and resources use, STDM facilitates proper land use and management to minimize practices that lead to …

• Compiler: Ken Otieno
• 12/13/2017 3:59 p.m.

This is a vegetative technology that involves planting of trees in a portion of land for various uses.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 10/02/2014 9:37 a.m.

The infiltration pits are constructed on bare lands with the aim to enhance re-vegetation of plant species. The pits help to reduce soil erosion/land degradation as water is now able to infiltrate through the pits because they are constructed in succession. It also improves land productivity and cover as well …

• Compiler: Matoka Moshoeshoe
• 03/25/2019 1:58 p.m.

For centuries, the population of the highlands of central and south-western Madagascar has sustainably managed and conserved the local tapia woodlands.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/15/2010 3:58 p.m.

A system for ecological monitoring provides accurate observations on the development of sylvo-pastoral resources, the management of which is handed over to land users who are organized in a local association. In order to monitor the ecological status of the land, a method to record the Vegetation Cover Index (VCI) …

• Compiler: Karl-Peter KIRSCH-JUNG
• 04/07/2017 4:54 p.m.

Une forêt de chêne vert (Quercus ilex) est protégée par une famille de nomades contre les coupes des arbres et l'ébranchage, ce qui permet une production de glands, ainsi que de limiter la dégradation des terres.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 10/02/2017 12:12 p.m.