SLM Database

Permanent meadows or pastures are more effective in controlling land degradation than arable cropping. They are especially appropriate in hilly regions on sloping land where the risk of water erosion is high.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:08 p.m.

Community-based soil rehabilitation by eradicating the invasive plant Lantana Camara using the 'cut rootstock' method (refer to WOCAT technology 6660) is an effective, cost-efficient, and sustainable approach to restoring grasslands on common lands in the Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh. The three-tier institutional structure used in this eradication process involved …

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

Cutting of wild ferns for fodder production and to mitigate pasture degradation.

• Compiler: Velia De Paola
• 07/18/2014 4:32 p.m.

Controlled grazing in deciduous woods seasonally limited in summer when grass cover in rangeland suffers water stress.

• Compiler: Lorenzo Borselli
• 06/05/2011 3:28 p.m.

Создание культурных пастбищ летне-осеннего использования с посевом многолетних засухоустойчивых кормовых культур (эспарцет под покров ячменя - летнего использования, изень - осеннего использования) в условиях предгорной зоны юго-востока Казахстана

• Compiler: Kulyash Iskandarova
• 05/15/2023 2:13 p.m.

Коренное улучшение низкопродуктивных пастбищ путем полосного размещения многолетних засухоустойчивых трав в условиях предгорно-полупустынной зоны юго-востока Казахстана

• Compiler: Kulyash Iskandarova
• 11/17/2022 5:54 a.m.

Fallow land restoration for fodder production is combined with biodiversity conservation of natural steppe vegetation by no-tillage disc-harrowing and seeding of forage grass in low density.

• Compiler: Heino Hertel
• 09/25/2013 6:22 a.m.

These are constructions stretching across the sand filled dry riverbed, down towards the impermeable floor of the riverbed. They are totally submerged into the ground. For example by fully covering after construction by sand. This are done along dry rivers with huge sand deposits, which has high yield potential and …

• Compiler: Guyo Roba
• 01/11/2018 9:44 a.m.

In this new technology the Maasai people set aside some acres of land, fence it and plant grass where the land is bear or allow natural standing grass to germinate then harvest it and store as hay for future use. This also helps in preventing soil erosion and surface run …

• Compiler: SAIKO JOYCE
• 10/18/2017 11:20 a.m.

A group ranch belonging to the Masai (traditionally, nomad pastoralists) has applied "Holistic Management" grazing principles. The principles consist of separate, planned grazing in villages during the rains, then “bunching” and moving of all animals in herds during the dry season. Denuded land is recovered by a "Boma” technology: i.e. …

• Compiler: Michael Herger
• 04/20/2017 4:40 p.m.