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.

It is a stone wall embankment along the contour with land leveling in between two terrace walls to control erosion.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 10/19/2010 6:12 p.m.

Stone bund is an enbankment of stone constructed acrros the slope following the contour.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 10:12 p.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.

It is a mechanical conservation measure where a basin and a ridge are formed for planting chat along a contour

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 1:49 p.m.

Stone faced soil bund is an embankemt constructed along the contour by the use of stone and soil as a construction material.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 12:16 p.m.

graded ditch out of soil and stones to protect the fields below from water runoff

• Compiler: Sabina Erny
• 05/29/2011 11:16 p.m.

Microcatchments and ponds are water harvesting measures used to collect stored and spread over an area to increase soil moisture and ground water level.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:12 a.m.

Trashlines are constructed as a barrier of runoff, soil erosion using maize, sorghum and teff straw/stalk

• Compiler: Daniel Danano Dale
• 02/14/2011 1:46 p.m.

It is a technique which increases the productivity of grasslands per unit area through activities of soding and direct sawing of grass species.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 11/08/2010 2:57 p.m.