SLM Database

stone terrace more or less along the contour, combined with artificial waterways and traditional ditches to drain excess water, and heightened field borders

• Compiler: Eva Ludi
• 02/13/2011 2:09 p.m.

Maintenance of continuous soil cover; alternating crops and cover crops as a practice to improve soil quality and reduce diffuse agricultural water pollution

• Compiler: Nicola Dal Ferro
• 10/22/2014 8:51 a.m.

Semi-circle stone bunds are used as soil conservation and water harvesting structures to reduce soil erosion and improve productivity of olive trees.

• Compiler: kasem al ahmad
• 01/09/2012 10:40 a.m.

The combating of Invaders to preserve water resources & the rehabilitation of the bare ground by means of brush packing to prevent soil erosion.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 01/16/2011 4:28 a.m.

Embankment dams are built to retain rainwater without totally blocking the flow of water, enabling the irrigation of a part of the plain.

• Compiler: Nina Lauterburg
• 09/24/2014 5:01 p.m.

Buffer strips and hedges comprise natural vegetation of grass, bushes or trees. They are sited at the edges of fields, roads and surface water bodies. Their main function is to provide a natural buffer to control nutrient and sediment transport from agricultural fields by promoting water infiltration and slowing runoff, …

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:13 p.m.

Poplars planted to lower the ground water table and reduce salinity where irrigation drainage systems have broken down; lucerne cultivated between the tree lines.

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 06/06/2011 8:50 p.m.

Biofilters or “bioreactors” connected to agricultural tile drains are relatively inexpensive and space-saving measures with considerable potential to improve the quality of drainage water.

• Compiler: Antonín Zajíček
• 05/06/2022 2:37 p.m.

Drip irrigation is a method designed for minimum use of water and labour for the optimum irrigation of plants in arid and semi-arid regions.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 03/01/2011 9:45 a.m.

Contour bunds, built with earth or stones, increase the amount of water available to crops and vegetation, thus contributing to the restoration of degraded land

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 7:54 a.m.