SLM Database

Organic mulching to protect against rain-splash, sheet wash and rill formation, reduce evaporation losses and weed growth.

• Compiler: Joris De Vente
• 07/01/2011 2:15 p.m.

Plantation of native semiarid woody species on small terraces with stone walls on ravines and gullies

• Compiler: Susana Bautista
• 11/04/2014 8:39 a.m.

Based on post-fire assessment and in areas more prone to erosion, the seedlings will provide a short term soil cover that buffers the raindrop impact and decreases soil erosion.

• Compiler: Artemi Cerda
• 06/10/2015 10:10 a.m.

Crop-livestock integration improves nutrient circularity and soil productivity: solid and liquid organic fertilizers prepared from cow manure are incorporated to soil or sprayed on leaves of vegetables and tea.

• Compiler: Head Soil Science
• 04/23/2022 12:23 p.m.

Using crops that can withstand a high water table level and still have a high yield

• Compiler: Örjan Berglund
• 10/13/2015 3:43 p.m.

Runoff harvesting through annually constructed V-shaped microcatchments, enhanced by downslope ploughing.

• Compiler: Francis Turkelboom
• 03/10/2011 2:25 p.m.

This energy-efficient stove was developed in close cooperation with the local blacksmith and pilot households. Its major features are a shorter burning chamber, lower height, air draft controller, enlarged burners and double circled pipes for heating water. The modified stove consumes much less firewood. It is possible to add heat …

• Compiler: Daler Domullodzhanov
• 02/04/2022 4:23 p.m.

Stones cleared from land within a narrow valley floor where flat land is at a premium, was used to construct a perimeter stone wall which was subsequently supplemented with a row of poplar tree to protect an agro-forestry area with small scale supplementary irrigation.

• Compiler: Habib Kamolidinov
• 05/04/2011 1:45 p.m.

Establishment of an 8-row shelterbelt consisting of different varieties of willow, poplar and sea-buckthorn to protect irrigated cropland with poor quality soil in the high Pamir region from wind erosion.

• Compiler: Aslam Qadamov
• 04/09/2011 12:20 p.m.

Cultivation of fodder crops (alfa-аlfa) on irrigated slopes of 60% steepness in the arid mountainous area of the Western Pamirs (Vanj valley).

• Compiler: Gulniso Nekushoeva
• 03/31/2011 9:30 a.m.