SLM Database

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.

After the end of the Soviet era, an increased number of livestock with less grazing land available, has led to the deterioration of the pastures, including overgrazing, reduction of plant diversity, poor livestock health and soil erosion. To tackle the problem, Caritas Switzerland together with livestock committees at village level …

• Compiler: Sa'dy Odinashoev
• 12/27/2010 10:26 a.m.