SLM Database

Gmelina trees as a basis for an agroforestry system help increase the soil's organic matter content, foster associated biodiversity, optimize the hydrological cycle, mitigate soil erosion, and generate income.

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 03/04/2023 8:21 p.m.

Cane and bamboo plantations are managed by land users and indigenous communities to sustain these valuable raw materials for making handicraft items. Tsharzo (bamboo craft), is one of the main sources of income for land users. Tsharzo makes use of cane and bamboo to weave products such as backpacks, baskets …

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 07/17/2023 1:14 p.m.

La tecnología consiste en la práctica de reforestación en combinación con el establecimiento de trampas de sedimentos (biotrampas) para consolidar los taludes.

• Compiler: Georg Heim
• 02/07/2011 7:55 p.m.

Association des barrières en travers de la pente (fossés anti-érosifs), des herbes fixatrices , des plants agroforestiers et des animaux pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et le bien-être social.

• Compiler: Salvator Ndabirorere
• 02/21/2013 4:23 p.m.

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) comprises a set of practices used by farmers to encourage the growth of native trees on agricultural land by systematically allowing regeneration and managing trees and shrubs from tree stumps, roots and seeds.

• Compiler: Joshua Adombire
• 12/13/2022 10:27 p.m.

Afforestation is planting trees on previously non-forested land. Trees hold the soil and reduce runoff, and thus prevent erosion of the most fertile layers. It is an effective way to rehabilitate degraded lands, being a nature-based solution which addresses flood and soil erosion impacts.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 06/22/2021 11:33 a.m.

Vegetative riparian buffers are strips of trees, bushes and grass alongside surface water bodies such as streams or ponds. Their main function is to provide a natural buffer strip to filter out nutrient and sediment transported from agricultural fields and prevent it reaching the water bodies - as well as …

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:13 p.m.

Natural assisted regeneration of broadleaved species, a small oak plantation and a fodder nursery have been established in the Nakina community forest (intervention area: 10 ha), supporting fodder tree species such as Banj Oak and Falyaat, as well as various subtropical temperate fodder grass species. This has improved the livelihood …

• Compiler: Jaclyn Bandy
• 08/03/2019 7 a.m.

Poplars planted to lower the ground water table and reduce salinity where irrigation drainage systems have broken down; lucerne cultivated between the tree lines.

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 06/06/2011 8:50 p.m.

Crop exclusion means establishing sanctuaries where landowners and the surrounding population agree to no longer cultivate, opting instead for natural environmental regeneration (passive exclusion) or for land enrichment, mainly by planting forest species (active exclusion).

• Compiler: Harifidy RAKOTO RATSIMBA
• 10/24/2022 3:24 p.m.