SLM Database

Earth embankment formed by digging a channel and pile the soil to form a ridge on which potato is planted.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:02 p.m.

It is an embankment of soil with no gradient along the contour and stablized with grasses, tree/shrub plant species.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/29/2011 10:35 p.m.

Runoff/flood farming locally known as Korbe is a practice that involves diversion of water from different sources for growing vegetables, fruit trees and crops of high value on a land prepared known as Korbe.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 09/24/2010 10:58 a.m.

Integrated Farm Land Conservation (IFLC) comprises of farm terrace (bund) construction, construction of drainage structures, bund stabilization and livestock exclosure,

• Compiler: Yismaw Wuletaw
• 10/25/2018 10:31 a.m.

Closed area management is an area within a watershed into which human and livestock access is limited, and the area is left for natural recovery of vegetation and soil. Management relates to activities by the community to ensure such protection and to support regeneration, such as constructing drainage and retention …

• Compiler: Melese Bililign
• 10/25/2018 10 a.m.

Homestead development is a diverse, dynamic and interesting horticultural area; it appears as an agroforestry plot in a cultivated landscape surrounding it, and it is more productive than single cropping, since harvesting is continuous over a great portion of the growing season and beyond.

• Compiler: Sewalem Salele
• 10/25/2018 10:31 a.m.

Stablized bund constructed fron stone and soils on the farm land along the contour and planted with multipurposive plant species

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 12:51 p.m.

Use of different mixes of plant cover for livestock fodder which are simultaneously favourable for biodiversity by improving soil health, and reducing the need for agrochemicals.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 02/17/2020 5:07 p.m.