SLM Database

Non-fruit and fruit trees are planted on heavily degraded forest land to protect the land from erosion and further degradation and provide fuelwood for the local community.

• Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
• 10/27/2016 9:27 p.m.

A sustainable option for bread baking and reducing shrub consumption

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 01/05/2013 9:25 a.m.

Degraded pastures are restored with alfalfa through broad seeding method. The area is put under quarantine for three years to allow for the pasture to restore sufficiently.

• Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
• 10/27/2016 9:42 p.m.

Contour trench bund applied on contour lines of moderate slope to trap run-off to improve infiltration and reduce flash floods.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 04/12/2016 8:12 a.m.

Rehabilitation of rangelands involves selection of key pasture and fodder species, and their reintroduction into strategic areas through stakeholder participation. The technology is also supported by communal management plans, which were created to address the root causes of land degradation.

• Compiler: Nicholas Euan Sharpe
• 08/21/2017 9:31 a.m.

Small horizontal wooden structures and terraces on eroded slopes built to mitigate sheet or rill erosion and slow down water run-off. The technology is easy to apply and efficient to mitigate erosion processes of the upper soil layer and to stop small rock falls.

• Compiler: Hanns Kirchmeir
• 10/01/2018 9:53 a.m.

Elimination of burning as a pre-harvest treatment of sugar cane, and managing the resultant trash as a protective blanket to give multiple on and off-site benefits.

• Compiler: Anthony J. Webster
• 11/02/2010 3:30 p.m.

The technology is called pitcher irrigation technology because irrigation water is provided from an earthen pitcher which has several small holes on its bottom. The earthen pitcher is placed on a raised bed which is filled with fresh irrigation water having several pores on its bottom. Then jute fibres are …

• Compiler: Md Babul Hossain
• 10/11/2018 8:22 p.m.

Transforming an area of the denuded low hills of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) into an organic farm and tourism site

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 04/17/2020 5:24 p.m.

The inclusive, flood-resilient cluster village provides safe housing, food security and income generation for multiple families, including persons with disabilities, in a highly flood prone area of Gaibandha District in northern Bangladesh. The land was raised above flood level and is protected by deep rooted fruit trees to prevent soil …

• Compiler: Subir Saha
• 03/23/2017 12:48 p.m.