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An integrated community-led initiative has been established to restore the degraded forests in Paktya province. This initiative focuses on setting up nurseries and incorporates both indigenous and scientific knowledge to cultivate climate-resilient species, such as Cedrus deodara and Pinus gerardiana. These efforts have enhanced the community’s knowledge and skills in …

• Compiler: Mohammad Wazir Ahmadzai
• 12/09/2024 5:30 a.m.

Water exploitation is a major issue in Afghanistan, and this technology helps to irrigate an afforestation/agroforestry area (demonstration plot) using surface water (rivers) and solar-powered submersible pump. The construction of reservoirs at the demo plot site ensures efficient water storage and use for irrigation purposes without relying on groundwater. A …

• Compiler: Ahmad Khalid Wiyar
• 01/12/2025 11:33 a.m.

Water exploitation is a major issue in Afghanistan, and this technology helps to irrigate an afforestation/agroforestry area (demonstration plot) using surface water (rivers) and solar-powered submersible pump. The construction of reservoirs at the demo plot site ensures efficient water storage and use for irrigation purposes without relying on groundwater. A …

• Compiler: Ahmad Khalid Wiyar
• 01/12/2025 11:33 a.m.

Mangrove afforestation in newly accreted land along cooastal regions accelerates the process of land stabilization, creates new forest resources, and enriches biodiversity.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 01/06/2019 10:30 a.m.

The indigenous community in Bolipara village of the Thanchi upazlia (sub-district) of the Bandarban district are reducing or preventing land degradation through the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants. This practice provides the raw material needed, by local traditional healers, to produce herbal medicines for the indigenous and tribal peoples.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 12/26/2018 6:02 a.m.

The coppice management of Sal (Shorea robusta) tree is a forest management practice to regain the natural forest resources in central and northern parts of Bangladesh.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 05/20/2019 5:43 a.m.

Creation of green shelter-belt along the coast line through plantation of Jhau (Casuarina equisetifolia) to reduce vulnerabilities and hazards of extreme weather events like cyclones.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 02/06/2019 6:49 a.m.

Mixed plantation technique with slow growing indigenous plant species in hill slope, that plays an important role to protect land degradation.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 02/05/2019 9:53 a.m.

Mound plantation with non-mangrove species to transform mono-culture plantations subsequently into more ecologically resilient, mixed species plantations and as well as to accelerate natural processes of accretion and land stabilization in coastal areas.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 04/25/2019 12:58 p.m.

Forests in headwater areas benefit water quality and hydrologic cycling. Furthermore, maintaining and restoring the forest cover in headwater catchments offers other, multiple benefits such as increased soil water retention, intercepted pollution pathways, improved soil, maintained biodiversity and captured carbon dioxide.

• Compiler: Marie Anne Eurie Forio
• 06/22/2021 11:23 a.m.