SLM Database

The project design is based on family approach and centred on the development of ORGANIC WADI (Orchard) enhancing livelihoods of the underpriveleged tribal community. The participating households spare a minimum of one acre land for wadi palntation.

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• 06/28/2010 11:23 a.m.

The failure of the rehabilitation practices mostly due to lack of people participation and attention of people benefit, mainly economic benefit. Therefore for the future success of rehabilitation need a people independency through Integrated Farming Agrosylvopasture with embung (small reservoir) and closed pipe irrigation. Agrosylvopasture "Pagar Tejo" system has the …

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• 08/04/2010 2:36 p.m.

Carbon Sequestration in woody biomass and in soils is a cost-effective measure to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels.Also, surplus biomass could be used as a substitute for fossil fuels.Some woody biomassspecies can grow in these low rainfall areas with saline soils, although the build up of organic carbon in wood and …

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• 08/11/2012 3:14 p.m.

Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) are an indigenous flower that grow in a plain in the Central Zagross Mountains (Chelgerd, Kuhrang). The plain is in the summer quarters of the Hamuleh Tribe of the Bakhtiari Confederation (Haft Lang branch) which covers an area covered of about 2,000ha. The community includes 500 …

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• 08/11/2012 3:14 p.m.

Floodwater spreading for spate irrigation and the artificial recharge of groundwater (ARG) is an indigenous base knowledge that has been practiced for millennia in different parts of Iran. the main objective of this initiative in the Gareh Bygone Plain is,Breaking the interfacing, vicious circles of poverty-ignorance-desertification on the one and, …

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• 07/29/2010 5:19 p.m.

Such a strategy is based on four components: locally adapted genetic resources (landraces), farmer’s knowledge and participation, integration of plant breeding and crop management (agronomy, soil management, disease and pests management), and respect of farmers' rights. |

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• 07/29/2010 5:19 p.m.