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Agroforestry system of cacao crop under gallery forest shadow as family agriculture. It is located at the foothill ecosystem of the Andes, in the Cusiana River, Orinoco Watershed, Colombia.

• Compiler: Luisa F. Vega
• 04/26/2020 9:28 p.m.

La tecnología pretende recuperar la fertilidad del suelo e impedir la erosión a través de una combinación de medidas estructurales (camellones en comtorno y zanjas de infiltración y de compost), vegetativas (barreras de pasto / árboles) y agronómicas (diversificación y intercalación de cultivos, aplicación de abono orgánico)

• Compiler: Mathias Gurtner
• 09/14/2010 10:07 a.m.

An agroforestry system which combines coffee with shade trees - including fruit, timber and leguminous species - in a systematic fashion.

• Compiler: Olman Quiros Madrigal
• 05/29/2011 4:07 p.m.

Tree plantations in combination with hillside terracing to protect upper catchment areas are a widespread technology in the Central and Northern Highland Zone of Eritrea.

• Compiler: Eyob Zeremariam
• 11/15/2010 10:47 a.m.

Area closure is a protection system to improve land with degraded vegetation and/or soil, by excluding livestock grazing and applying initial inputs and continuous maintenance. Once recovery is taking place through natural regeneration, area closures can become part of the agricultural system, thereby improving forage quantity and quality and also ...

• Compiler: Bekalu Bitew
• 10/25/2018 10:06 a.m.

Soil bund and Fanya Juu constructed along the contour lines in microwatershed to conserve soil moisture and control erosion.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 06/02/2011 2:35 p.m.

Desho grass strip is a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for animals.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 4:20 p.m.

Closure of degraded land is made on land that has lost vegetation cover, has low soil fertility . To speed up the regeneration process applying some SWC activities and enrichment plantation will be necessary.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/16/2011 11:41 a.m.

Closed area management is an area within a watershed into which human and livestock access is limited, and the area is left for natural recovery of vegetation and soil. Management relates to activities by the community to ensure such protection and to support regeneration, such as constructing drainage and retention ...

• Compiler: Melese Bililign
• 10/25/2018 10 a.m.

Closing the degraded land to let it to regenerate by excluding human and animal interference ans speed up the regeneration process by applying some SWC activities and undertake enrichment plantation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 4:44 p.m.