SLM Database

Native stingless bee keeping (Melipona favosa) protects bees and plants found in forest and savannah ecosystems to produce honey. In contrast to current destructive wild bee honey harvesting, members of the Abril family keep the traditional practice of capturing/rescuing wild nests, and adapt them so that honey can be extracted …

• Compiler: Beatriz Ramirez
• 06/24/2020 10:08 p.m.

Agroforestry system of cacao crop under gallery forest shadow as family agriculture. It is located at the Pozetas Stream, in the Cusiana River Basin, Floodable Savannas of the Colombian Orinoco.

• 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.

A waterway is an artficial drainage channel constructed along the steepest slope to receive runoff from cutoff drains and graded structures and drain to the natural waterway safely.

• Compiler: Berhanu Fentaw
• 06/02/2011 3:30 p.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.

It is a structural measure with an embankment of soil or stones or soil and stones, constructed along the contour and stablized with vegetative measures (grass and fodder trees).

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 8:29 p.m.

Activities that help maintain the productive potentials of soils through prevention and reduction of erosion, enhancing of rehabilitation rate by practicing measures such as microbasins, trench, eyebrow terrace, terraces, pitting and plantation of trees.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 3:51 p.m.