SLM Database

A structural measure constructed by stone/soil/wood acrross the gully to control erosion and create favourble condition for crop cultivation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 9:44 p.m.

These consist of stone embankments built in the shape of a semi circle with the tips of the bund on the contour and are arranged in staggered orientation in rows so that overflow from one row will run into the next downslope.

• Compiler: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/11/2012 12:07 p.m.

It is a barrier of stone/wood/earth placed across a gully to control runoff and sediment passing through.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 3:02 p.m.

Area closure on degraded lands is a land management practice used to rehabilitate and conserve the natural resource bases, and enhance its natural regeneration and restoring capacity and productive functions by excluding animal and human interferences through community consultation and collective actions.

• Compiler: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/09/2014 10:12 a.m.

Earh-checks are constructed of earth embankment put across in a deep gully in such a way to trap sediment and store water passing by it.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:21 p.m.

Construction of stones walls along the contour with trenches on the upper side of the structure while the upper part of the structure filled with soil and compacted.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/28/2011 7:51 p.m.

Closing the degraded land in order to provide enough time to regenerate by excluding from human and animal interferance.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 8:07 p.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.

Earth embankment formed by digging a channel and pile the soil to form a ridge on which potato is planted.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:02 p.m.

It is an embankment of soil with no gradient along the contour and stablized with grasses, tree/shrub plant species.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 10:35 p.m.