SLM Database

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.

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.

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.

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.

Se trata de diques de piedras que se ubican en el lecho de los arroyos, acompañados por plantaciones alrededor de las construcciones.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/11/2010 2:55 p.m.

Dynamic agroforestry systems are highly diversified farming systems which go through the different phases of the natural succession, from pioneer plant dominated stages up to primary trees dominated stages, were the different strata are used for different crops, and where pruning and selective weeding enhances the dynamic development of plant ...

• Compiler: Johanna Jacobi
• 08/04/2016 5:37 p.m.

Afforestation of bare land in Herzegovina region, a vulnerable area characterized by Karst landscapes, is an SLM technique aimed to increase water-holding capacity and reduce land degradation

• Compiler: Marijana Kapović Solomun
• 02/16/2019 8:57 a.m.

Production of methane gas from cow-dung for use in house-hold cooking, heating and lighting in order to reduce fire wood demand

• Compiler: Sebego Reuben
• 11/15/2010 4:34 p.m.

Seed of maize and soy are planted directly into the soil with a minimum previous tillage impact.

• Compiler: Stefan Hohnwald
• 06/19/2015 10:17 a.m.