SLM Database

Norias are water-pumping wheels made of bamboo which are used to irrigate paddy fields in order to increase the yield.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 3:16 a.m.

Ponds are used at household level to raise fish as well as to irrigate vegetable gardens and rice seedlings

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/16/2014 5:34 p.m.

This equipment is able to automatically pump water without the use of fuel, requires little maintenance and can transfer water for domestic and agricultural uses including livestock raising and the cultivation of crops.

• Compiler: Be Gechkim
• 05/02/2017 4:02 a.m.

The cultivation of corn with the use of a drip irrigation system is an efficient technique that saves water and is suitable for irrigation in areas where there is a scarce water supply. Farmers using the drip irrigation system with their corn crops is an adaptation to climate change, in …

• Compiler: Nary Lay
• 08/22/2017 9:35 a.m.

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.

Water-spreading weirs are structures that span the entire width of a valley to spread floodwater over the adjacent land area.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/08/2012 2:54 p.m.

Auto-flowing slurry dams is filled with dense slurry by water flow from upland to maintain eroded soil particles and runoff.

• Compiler: Yan ZHANG
• 12/06/2010 3:16 p.m.

The use of courtyard, roof, road surface, slope, etc. as catchments to collect rainwater for underground water storage for future supply of cropland irrigation as well as drinking water for humans and livestock.

• Compiler: Anna Schuler
• 10/13/2010 11:43 a.m.

Practical agronomic management recommendations are presented, including pruning, fertilization and irrigation, oriented towards improved production of the guava fruit tree (Psidium guajava) based on SLM.

• Compiler: Claudia Patricia Rendón Ocampo
• 02/26/2021 2:31 p.m.

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• Compiler: Raul Galeas
• 09/12/2018 9:33 p.m.