SLM Database

The Keyhole Garden model of homestead vegetable cultivation enhances the resilience of families living in areas with climate-related hazards, such as flooding and drought. Keyhole gardens have been shown to increase vegetable production in all seasons, thereby improving household food autonomy and dietary diversity.

• Compiler: John Brogan
• 11/29/2016 6 p.m.

Traditional shifting cultivation is a rain-fed cultivation practice of the trible people of CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) for their subsistence, where natural vegetation is cleared off by slash-and-burn, to grow mixed annual crop for one year and then the land is left fallow for 3-5 years for natural regeneration.

• Compiler: Abdul Gafur
• 11/04/2010 1:46 p.m.

Valley floor cultivation practiced by the rehabilitated tribal farmers through intensifying cultivation.

• Compiler: Niaz Ahmed Khan
• 11/04/2010 2:50 p.m.

Mixed fruits gardening on hill slope with forest trees on hill top and bamboo at the lower part of the hill.

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 11/03/2010 3:19 p.m.

Artificial earthen dam constructed in the narrow valley of the hills for water harvesting, aquaculture, house hold uses and irrigation.

• Compiler: Sankar Paul
• 11/03/2010 4:50 p.m.

Floating Garden is a traditional technology, practiced in the southern parts of Bangladesh locally called “Baira” or “Dhap”. The technology allows producing crops, vegetables and seedlings in areas where farming land is scarce and where the land is flodded or water logged for more than six months in a year.

• Compiler: Shamim Ahamed
• 10/09/2016 11:31 a.m.

Emergency infrastructure including shelter and linked transport infrastructure, consists in establishing specific flood shelters (for people and animals) including flood-proof collective water sources and communication infrastructure as well as health and school facilities that may serve at the same time as emergency shelters during floods.

• Compiler: TUHIN SAMADDAR
• 10/26/2016 4:10 p.m.

Forests in headwater areas benefit water quality and hydrologic cycling. Furthermore, maintaining and restoring the forest cover in headwater catchments offers other, multiple benefits such as increased soil water retention, intercepted pollution pathways, improved soil, maintained biodiversity and captured carbon dioxide.

• Compiler: Marie Anne Eurie Forio
• 06/22/2021 11:23 a.m.