SLM Database

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.

Marshy land is transformed into a ridge and ditch area, where the ridges are wide enough for the nursery of diverse plants and seedlings and where after 6-8 years the yearly management practices the land got strong enough for various agricultural practices (i.e. guava, hog plum, plums and timber wood …

• Compiler: Rahatul Islam
• 12/28/2016 7:31 a.m.

Bench terraces are a soil and water conservation measure used on sloping land with relatively deep soils to retain water and control erosion. They are normally constructed by cutting and filling to produce a series of level steps or benches. This allows water to infiltrate slowly into the soil. Bench …

• Compiler: Md Babul Hossain
• 12/21/2018 7:14 p.m.

The combination of pond sand filters (PSF) and raised pond embankments protect drinking water sources and increase the resilience to flood and tidal surge events in low-lying coastal areas.

• Compiler: John Brogan
• 08/22/2016 7:45 a.m.

Traditional shifting cultivation is a rain-fed cultivation practice of the trible people of CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) for their subsistence, where natural vegetation is cleared off by slash-and-burn, to grow mixed annual crop for one year and then the land is left fallow for 3-5 years for natural regeneration.

• Compiler: Abdul Gafur
• 11/04/2010 1:46 p.m.

Mixed fruits gardening on hill slope with forest trees on hill top and bamboo at the lower part of the hill.

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 11/03/2010 3:19 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.

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.