SLM Database

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.

Combining different measures such as stone rows, dikes and dams to stabilize and restore the soil and increase water infiltration. Trees alongside these structures allow an enhancement of these structural measures.

• Compiler: Rebecka Ridder
• 09/30/2016 1:43 p.m.