SLM Database

Earthen trenches with soil bunds built along contours in staggered design

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 02/08/2016 8:20 a.m.

Alternative Drying and Wetting (AWD) is a practice in rice cultivation which decrease water use, while having no impact on rice yield. It also decreases the amount of methane into the atmosphere and fuel consumption of water pumps.

• Compiler: Mutasim Billah
• 04/08/2019 4:55 a.m.

Springshed revival through trenches and check dams is associated with a nature-based solution approach to reviving more than 20 springsheds. These were widened with the occasional construction of check dams to prevent rill erosion from the newly revived spring waters.

• Compiler: Karma Wangdi
• 07/14/2023 7:29 a.m.

A modern hydraulic complex in the centre of the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso for watering livestock in the dry season.

• Compiler: Nouhoun Zampaligré
• 07/21/2017 4:39 p.m.

The use of coconut leaves mulch for winter melon cultivation helps to conserve soil moisture, reduces evaporation, reduces weeds, saves water, preserves the soil from erosion, and increases crop productivity.

• Compiler: Sok Pheak
• 08/23/2017 6:06 p.m.

Securing the mobility of pastoralism through access to water sources (open wells and ponds in pastoral areas) and marking the livestock routes for transhumance: the case of the project Almy Al Afia in Chad and its consultative approach.

• Compiler: Bonnet Bernard
• 01/18/2018 8:41 a.m.

Zanjas de Infiltración

• Compiler: Florian Dieker
• 05/13/2015 7:35 p.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.

Biofilters or “bioreactors” connected to agricultural tile drains are relatively inexpensive and space-saving measures with considerable potential to improve the quality of drainage water.

• Compiler: Antonín Zajíček
• 05/06/2022 2:37 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.