SLM Database

The African Market Garden (AMG) is a horticultural production system based on low-pressure drip irrigation.

• Compiler: Julie Zähringer
• 09/27/2010 2:37 p.m.

Retention ponds (e.g. flood storage reservoirs, shallow impoundments) are water bodies, storing water to attenuate surface runoff during rainfall events. They provide storage as well as improving water quality. Retention ponds may also be used for irrigation of farmland.

• Compiler: Gregor Kramberger
• 06/22/2021 11:34 a.m.

Drainage of saturated and salinised soils by means of sub-soil drainage pipes

• Compiler: Hans Edward King
• 01/16/2011 8:11 a.m.

Artificially built watercourses with contour banks with a specific gradient

• Compiler: Ursula Gaemperli
• 01/18/2011 2:23 p.m.

A 15th century irrigation system is used on a small, intercropped and manured family orchard located in Valencia, in la Vall d’Albaida county (Spain)

• Compiler: Alicia Morugán-Coronado
• 09/12/2022 10:52 a.m.

Aserpias are micro-depressions within a field along all or alternate inter vines rows, made by a tillage tool. The main objective of implementing Aserpiado is to let water infiltrate on-site, thereby increasing soil moisture and plant available water, decreasing runoff and associated losses of soil.

• Compiler: Wolfgang Duifhuizen
• 12/05/2016 6:42 p.m.

Ackerbaufruchtfolge auf anmoorigen Böden (>10% organische Substanz) mit Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Stauwasser aufgrund einer Wasserundurchlässigen Tonschicht im Unterboden.

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/04/2020 2:31 p.m.

Der Landwirt praktiziert Gemüse- und Ackerbau auf organischen Böden im "Grossen Moos", dem ehemalig grössten Flachmoor der Schweiz. Dabei kultiviert er Gemüse wie Karotten und Zwiebeln, aber auch Ackerkutluren wie Mais, Kartoffeln und Winterweizen.

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/08/2020 10:24 a.m.

Runoff harvesting through annually constructed V-shaped microcatchments, enhanced by downslope ploughing.

• Compiler: Francis Turkelboom
• 03/10/2011 2:25 p.m.

Semi-circle stone bunds are used as soil conservation and water harvesting structures to reduce soil erosion and improve productivity of olive trees.

• Compiler: kasem al ahmad
• 01/09/2012 10:40 a.m.