SLM Database

Gully treatment consists in lining the walls of a gully and creating a partial barrier within the gully using stone check dams and, if necessary, earth-filled bags.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 04/03/2023 3:51 p.m.

Vegetation along contour stone bunds with herbaceous species adds an additional water and soil conservation measure on sloping agricultural lands.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 04/17/2023 11:32 a.m.

A filtering dyke is a water and soil conservation technology built into a temporary stream, valley bottom or a drainage channel. It is built using stones of varying sizes.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 03/16/2023 11:36 a.m.

Organic manure-based fertilisation is a humus-rich soil improver. It is a soil amendment technology used to improve soil structure and fertility, thereby enhancing production quality.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 03/19/2023 12:30 p.m.

Minimum tillage consists of working the soil superficially using a tined plough to scarify it and break up the previous year's ridges. This is a soil preparation technique that consists of not turning over the soil, which is a key principle of conservation agriculture.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 04/19/2023 2:56 p.m.

The process of creating grassed strips entails either planting or maintaining a vegetative strip (natural) with perennial species aligned along contour lines to reduce runoff and foster water infiltration into the soil.

• Compiler: Moussa ABOU
• 03/20/2023 5:25 p.m.

Permeable rock dams serve to restore seriously degraded farmland and forest/rangeland and are used to fill in gullies and control water flow.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 7:58 a.m.

Les zaï forestier est une technique de réhabilitation des terres dans le but de régénérer la végétation.

• Compiler: Sounkali SERME
• 08/25/2013 4:10 p.m.

A modern hydraulic complex in the centre of the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso for watering livestock in the dry season.

• Compiler: Nouhoun Zampaligré
• 07/21/2017 4:39 p.m.

A special tractor-pulled plow that constructs micro-catchments. It combines the traditional techniques of rainwater harvesting with mechanization for large scale land rehabilitation.

• Compiler: Sabina Galli Vallerani
• 05/03/2012 2:20 p.m.